Abstract
The objective of this text is to analyze the discourse about the formation of popular sectors exposed by two important radical newspapers of the early twentieth century in Brazil and Colombia. For the Colombian case the study of the newspaper Humanity between the years 1925 and 1927 is approaching. In the Brazilian case the newspaper A Plebe is studied between 1917 and 1920. Thus, in the context of a strong popular mobilization derived from the social question, in addition to the constitution of the field of the local left, the popular intellectuals who wrote in the pages of these newspapers conceived a "rationalist" and inclusive education directed to the popular sectors. For the collective construction of an educational sense, imaginary complexes were built on worker and popular being, on the past and the future, but above all on the logic that should guide the revolution as a formative exercise. In this way, the educational process was conceived as the becoming of consciousness and the discovery of "scientific" truth. The paper will develop four moments: 1. The social and political contexts; 2. The newspapers as mechanisms of diffusion of ideas; 3. The educational discourses exposed by the texts; 4. Finally, a kind of conclusion about the methodological conditioning of the comparison, and the scope of the educational discourses in relation to the practice of the subjects and the possible view of the historian.
Keywords:
education; comparative history; intellectual-popular; libertarian formation