He engages in defense of brown people, much ever more numerous in the colonial slave society. From the Franciscan utopia, he defends advanced position on the benefits of crossbreeding for a promising future of Brazil and the humanity.
A real master class! Toma partido em defesa da gente parda, cada vez mais numerosa, na sociedade colonial escravista. Verdadeira aula magistral! Lisboa: Off. The class, as well as the sermon, has noble and solemn connotations. The Latin meaning of class existing in the ancient Portuguese, was spatial: palace, court, or a honor room. The churches naves, of dilated building dimensions, always searching for the unavoidable acoustics, are more like classes, in the remote meaning of the term.
The pulpit, strategically placed, is occupied by a minister, who has permission to preach and teach. In French, the word clerc , with a double meaning, can mean both a member of the clergy, and intellectual person. The Church is the only school available to the poor people in the Colony.
The popular celebrations were their great opportunity to exchange knowledge and for collective experimentation in the open air. There was, at the time, a pedagogy that was supported in the orality, in the images, in the movements, and in the symbols, and the results of it were efficient and lasting, giving to the individuals and to the communities learning and knowledge for the whole life.
It is not our intent, in this article, to discuss the relationships between fields or domains in the history. According to the author,. This requires the use of other sources and theoretical perspectives that work with the idea of educational practices arising from the concept of cultural practices, developed by historians, and sociologists, as Michel de Certeau, Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier.
