Antonio CARNEIRO LEÁO

Background

CARNEIRO LEÁO, Antonio was born on July 2, 1887 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Education

Educated Colégio Porto Carrero. Bachelor of Laws, Ph.D., University do Recife, 1911.

Career

Professor; professor. Recife, 1909-1912; lawyer, journalist, professor., Rio de Janeiro, 1916-1920. Founder and director, O Economista, 1920-1927.

Director general of public edn., Rio de Janeiro, 1922-1926. Professor., Brazil Summer School, Rio de Janeiro, 1928, 1929. State secretary of justice and edn., Pernambuco, 1929-1930.

Director, Escola Normal Industrial Wenceslau Braz, 1931-1933. Professor, and head of French department, Colégio Pedro II, 1932-1937. Professor, of school administration and sociology, University do Brasil, since 1933, dean of school of philosophy, since 1945.

Director, Institute de Pesquisas Educacionais, 1935. Direito Internacional, Society de Geografía (Lisbon), Associagáo Brasileira de Higiene Mental, Institute Brasileiro de Educagáo Ciencia e Cultura (vice-president), P.E.N. Club. Officer, Del Mérito (Chile), White Lion (Czechoslovakia).

Diretrizes da escola secundária, 1936. Introdugáo á administragáo escolar, 1939, 1945. A Sociedade rural, seus problems e sua educagáo, 1940.

Fundamentos da sociología, 1940. Ideáis e preocupagóes de urna época, 1941. Meus heróis, 1942; Planejar e agir, 1942.

Pensamento e agáo, 1944: O Sentido da evolugáo cultural do Brasil, 1945. A Educagáo para um mundo democrático, 1945. Aspectos brasileros de educagáo, 1945.

Also contributor to numerous newspapers and reviews in Brazil, and to educational journals in the United States and Europe.

Membership

Member: Academy Brasileira de Letras, Institute Arqueológico e Geográfico de Pernambuco, Institute Brasileiro de Direito Internacional, Society de Geografía (Lisbon), Associagáo Brasileira de Higiene Mental, Institute Brasileiro de Educagáo Ciencia e Cultura (vice-president), P.E.N. Club.

Connections

Father:

Antonio Carlos Carneiro Leáo

Mother:

Elvira Cavalcanti de Arruda Cámara