The Christian schools of Jean Baptiste de La Salle and the political and religious transformations in France in the 17th and 18th centuries

Abstract

This article aims to challenge the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, started by Saint John Baptist de La Salle in 1694 in France. Education commonly associated with an exclusively denominational educational institution, what is observed in the pedagogical proposal of such schools is a reformist teaching but focused on traditional needs and that went social education despite the other denominational institutions. La Salle created the ideal responsible for the conduction of pedagogical practices and all its schools, as well as “small in life the formation of the first master-brothers”. Its originality took place not only in the pedagogical field, but also in the ecclesiastical field, reinforcing the congregational model of consecrated life, formed exclusively by lay people, whose era of preparation for the task of teaching the children of the poor and artisans to read and write, regarding the task of literacy a aristocratic teaching project. In his work, he saw more schools, with the brothers, what he saw was education that, although it was difficult throughout the period of elementary education for France especially.