A reforma pombalina e suas implicações para a educação brasileira em meados do século XVIII

The historical knowledge of Brazilian formal education is primordial to perceive the educational context of change, which has been lived nowadays and the establishment of differentiated analytical referrals. Thus, based on the premise that the ideologies of each historical moment have directed the implementation of educational proposals, this research aimed at analyzing the importance of understanding both the important historiographic period of Brazilian education and the impact of the educational reforms that have been carried out in Brazil Colony by Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, the Marquis of Pombal. The studied period was named as the governmental phase (1750-1777), which occurred during the reign of Dom Jose I in Portugal and ended in the Pombaline Reforms implemented in Portugal and in Brazil Colony. Such anti-Jesuitical reforms focused on measures whose goals were to take apart the current educational system and to attribute to it the educational decadence of the empire regarding that historical moment in order to put Portugal forward from a new 'cultural' guidance and colonial overexploitation. This is a qualitative and bibliographical research, which shows that the Pombaline reform has destabilized an already safe educational organization without settling down a new model instead. And this meant a backset in educational development, especially in the Brazilian context still under organization.