%0 Journal Article %T The Educacional Challenge of Florestan Fernandes %A Carlos Bauer %J Revista de Ci¨ºncias da Educa£¿£¿o %D 2010 %I Centro Universit¨¢rio Salesiano de S?o Paulo (UNISAL) %X The work of Florestan Fernandes, a Brazilian sociologist, (1920 - 1995), is quite broad. His intellectual output comprises more than fifty titles, including cultural issues, political, social, which include works such as the social organization of Tupinamb¨¢s integration of blacks in a class society, class society and underdevelopment, dependent capitalism and social classes in America, in pursuit of socialism - last writings & other texts and the bourgeois revolution in Brazil. Contemplating also educational themes, we find, in addition to the educational challenge, Brazilian university: reform or revolution, the question of USP and Education and society in Brazil. This article is concerned with reflecting on the historical importance of the educational challenge, edited by Cortez & Associate Editors, in 1989, the construction of counter-hegemonic praxis in Brazilian education. %K Florestan Fernandes %K educational challenge %K counter-hegemony %K history of education. %U http://200.206.4.13/ojs/index.php?journal=educacao&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=185&path%5B%5D=211