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The Elementary School as Modernizer: A Brazilian Study * DONALD B. HOLSINGER The University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. Does the impact of the Brazilian school on the per- sonality of the child develop traits conducive to innovativeness, analytical reasoning, and self reliance? Are these traits important for the stimulation and acceptance of modernizing social change? The answer to both of these questions must be begged, and instead the tentative hypothesis advanced that Brazilian schools, especially at the primary level where their impact on personality development is greatest, tend to stifle rather than develop the personality traits on which modernization depends, and from which the society must draw its innovators. John V. D. Saunders, 1969 Introduction THE basic hypothesis of this study is that schools, because of their peculiar learning environment, provide pupils with certain experiences largely unavailable in other social settings, and that these experiences represent con- ditions conducive to the acquisition of modern values. The line of reasoning used to assess the validity of this hypothesis is as follows: If schools do in fact modernize as predicted, then children who have such school experience should * This is a revised and somewhat expanded version of a paper
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1973
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