In the 1930 the Brazilian educational discussion took place between two opposing groups, who used the book as a strategic device aimed to disseminate or censure pedagogical concepts with the intent of consolidating a particular school model. In this context and a cultural-historical perspective, this paper presents a discussion of two printed collections pedagogical that circulated in Brazil: Democracy and Education by John Dewey (1936) and The Philosophy of Education from the democratic point of view, by Herman Harrell Horne (1938).
pedagogical collections; strategy; practices; school model