LUIS CONTIER AS A CATALYST OF NETWORKS: CLASSES EXPERIMENTAIS AND RENEWAL OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SÃO PAULO IN THE 1950S AND 1960S

Abstract During the discussions about education right after Vargas dictatorship, Secondary Education topic gains importance, being seen as essential into the articulation of schooling process with the performance of occupation, tasks and social roles. The present article, based on notions such as networks of sociability and social capital, aims to situate the figure of educator Luis Contier as an intellectual of education who contributed, in a pioneering way, to the renewal of secondary public education in the state of São Paulo in this space-time, through a project of the Classes Secundárias Experimentais. To this end, emphasis will be placed on his intellectual dimension, elucidating the networks and institutions in which he participated, based on the analysis of documentary sources of his personal collection.