Author(s): Albeiro Mejia Trujillo, Maria Francisca Ferreira Trujillo

Abstract: During the Homeric period, the poets were responsible for education, and with the emergence of Socratic philosophy the act of teaching becomes the task of the "friends of wisdom" (philosophers). Several centuries have passed until, in middle age, or Scholastic, the production of knowledge and training of clergy, besides the aristocracy, had become responsibility of the monastic and convent schools directly linked to the Catholic Church. In the 16th century, the social changes triggered transformations of scientific, cultural, political, economic, etc., caused crises in various institutional segments, finished in major reforms as the Protestant and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The changes that passed European society and the Renaissance spirit of blossoming together with the colonizing process of Spain and Portugal, finished promoting advances in popularization of knowledge. In colonial Brazil, the Society's of Jesus priests (Jesuits) have begun to establish educational institutions and from the mid-18th century come new congregations and Catholic religious orders, and several Protestant denominations that come to weave the confessional education Brazilian lands.

Keywords: Reform; Counter-Reformation; Christian Education; Curriculum Jesuit; Protestants Schools.

DOI: 10.24001/ijels.2.5.18