Anísio Teixeira, a Leader of Brazilian Education: Why is His Legacy Ignored Today?
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Abstract
The article discusses Aníseio Teixeira’s role in Brazilian education. It makes the point that conservative restorations impeded Teixeira’s innovations from taking root. This situation explains why his legacy was largely moved to oblivion. Of relevance here is the influence of John Dewey’s writings on Teixeira’s conceptions of education and his reading of Dewey’s theoretical and conceptual framework. The authors put emphasis on his understanding of university reform, his institutional experiment at the University of the Federal District and University of Brasilia. They further attempt to explain why his legacy is ignored today. The article goes to the “long 1960s” to refer to the historical conjuncture and the emergence of Paulo Freire’s pedagogy as an epistemological break that led to a reconstruction of the notion of political subject, becoming an inspiration to those envisioning a different social order. This left Teixeira in the historical background. Keywords: Anisio Teixeira, Brazilian education, John Dewey and Teixeira, University of the Federal District of Bahia, University of Brasilia, Paulo Freire, Darcy Ribeiro
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".