SANTOS, Ademir Valdir dos. Education and fascism in brazil: the schooling of childhood and the new state (1937-1945). []. , 25, 1, pp.137-163. ISSN 0871-9187.

New State was the dictatorial government under Getúlio Vargas leadership. In this period the government action was characterized by reaching to build the Brazilian nationality and identity. This study evidences the ideological and political orientation of the New State that aims reach elementary schools, especially which situated in European immigration areas of Southern Brazil, generating pedagogical changes. We analyzed editions of a school newspaper called Everything for Brazil, elaborated between 1941 and 1944, and education policies documentation concerning management and school inspection. We showed that texts written by the children of the Brazilian elementary school and transported to the school newspaper explicit, through its form and contents, the ideas of the political regimen. As a curriculum activity, the childhood involvement in the newspaper construction would collaborate for citizenship that was Brazilian needs. In the New State, school education attends to nationalist construction idealized by the fascist project of Getúlio Vargas.

: Education; Nationalism; Fascism; Childhood; Brazil.

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