This article raises two questions. On the one hand, it discusses some of the educational projects in dispute during the period in Brazil known as Estado Novo (1937-1945), and what united them, namely, the desire to constitute a new man, a citizen of the National State. The article also calls attention to the enormous abyss that exists between these projects and the day-to-day experiences they intended to influence.
Estado Novo; citizenship; exclusion; education
