A educação nova e o trabalho escolar: horizonte e polaridades de uma visão educativa

In this article the authors revisit the main principles and key concepts of the New Education and point out the importance of developmental psychology and of the need to allow children to mature (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) as well as to promote their education from within through the practice of active methods. Next, we identify within the New Education ideology the ideas of progress and perfectibility dear to the Enlightenment tradition and, from the school performance perspective, we question if the New Education propositions approach or move away from the Taylorist perspective and how they incorporate the concepts of the economic and social man. These concepts affect the organization of the work, namely the organization of school work, determine two important references that impose boundaries to the pedagogies in action.