Between the individual and the community: analysis of the School Civic Centers during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1971-1985) Authors Mauro Castilho Gonçalves Universidade de Taubaté, São Paulo (Brasil) Karina Clécia da Silva Guilherme São José dos Campos, São Paulo (Brasil) Helder Henriques Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre y Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) Keywords: Brasil, Civil-military Dictatorship, Schools Civic Centers, Youth. Abstract This article analyzes School Civic Centers (CCE), created in public and private elementary schools, during Brazilian Civil–Military dictatorship from 1971 to 1985. School Civic Centers (CCE) were students’ organizations coordinated by counselors of Moral and Civic Education (EMC), a school subject created by Federal Decree no. 869/1969, regulated two years later by Decree-Law no. 68.065/1971, which set up the National Commission of morality and civic mindedness (CNMC). The effective legislation specific to this subject encouraged Teaching Institutions to develop what they called extracurricular activities for involving and engaging students in a range of activities, related to sports, leisure, civic and cultural education. The Centers aimed at encouraging the meeting between young students under the attentive eye of the school Management´s Supervisors and carrying out actions for fostering high values among the intellectual élite who served and elaborated the ideological elements of the system.The study analyzes, through available school documentation and oral statements, the way some school institutions adhered to and applied the official guidelines set out by the Ministry of Education. Some Schools were selected from Paraiba Valley Region, State of São Paulo, because they kept in their archives related documentation and, in some cases, the protagonists´ testimonies. Concerning analytical procedures, we have used theoretical (and methodical) references proposed by the historians Edward Palmer Thompson and Carlo Ginzburg, namely category of experience and signs, in the dialogue between the individual and the community, intrinsic to historical processes.Key words: Brasil, Civil-military Dictatorship, Schools Civic Centers, Youth. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) PDF Issue No. 35 (2020): gener-juny Section Monographic theme License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.