LA SALLE'S SMALL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: ORGANIZATION AND WORK IN THE FIRST FOUNDATION YEARS

ABSTRACT: Using the works of La Salle, his commentators, and researchers on this period education, work aims to present pedagogical proposal a reformist nature, which, however, corresponded social needs that gradually appeared in context. Ensured by policies King Louis XIV, small Christian Schools, founded Jean-Baptiste de other Catholic institutions found space for promoting their pedagogy. In Small teaching showed signs modernity never before seen confessional institutions. As spiritual intellectual guide group consecrated masters, Salle provided students with indiscriminate access schools, them read write French, training lay people conduct classes. These actions popularized civility rules he wrote were widely read. All these factors contributed emergence an education that, prioritizing poorest layers society, sought reconcile its method traditional religious precepts demands bourgeois society time. The result can be understood based popular reach reading writing, which allowed develop amidst modern required