| dc.description.abstract | This study discusses the origins of Notre Dame Congregation (ND), its principles and its main activities, which culminated in the creation of Menino Jesus School that, in Passo Fundo, develops expressive work in the students training. It makes a resume of the principles of one of its inspirers, Bernard Overberg who, with charisma and the founder practice of Julia Billiart, had constituted the educative principles of ND Net and had started the practice at Menino Jesus School and other units of the Net. We tried to identify the challenges of ND education, its possibilities and limits in the contemporary context marked by the logic of the market, globalization, which directly confronts with the humanists principles. We present an analysis of ND Net Vision, resuming its history and identifying how it articulates or opposes itself to the requirements of the neoliberalism and how Menino Jesus school lives with this contradiction, making front and/or remaining to the neoliberal principles, giving life to inherent hu | en |
