Roberto mange

a thinker in the industry – reasoning, reflection, and action thought and action

Abstract

The article presents reflections on the movement of organization of professional technical education in Brazil from the beginning of the 20th century. To configure this movement, we highlight the figure of Roberto Mange, one of the creators of SENAI schools. The beginning of the 20th century dates back to the ideas of modernity, and Mange reflects his training in the organization of schools in Senas. We present Roberto Mange, as an intellectual of his time, we highlight him as an intellectual of professional education given his political, cultural and scientific engagement in the field of industrial education. This work discusses part of the teaching trajectory conceived by Roberto Mange for SENAI schools. Roberto Mange brought to SENAI his long experience as director of IDORT and as a professor of mechanical engineering at the polytechnic school, and his enormous intellectual baggage, with theories on suitable methods for training and socializing industrial apprentices. The Edgard Leuenroth Archive Center for Social Research and Documentation Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences State University of Campinas includes documentation on Roberto Mange, materials that we present as primary sources for the analysis of this text, with the aim of understanding this man's views for Brazilian professional education.