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Education as politics: the formation and renovation of educational repertoires during Dom Pedros II reign in Brazil (Colégio Pedro II, Ginásio Baiano and Culto à Ciência)

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Author(s):
Carlos Eduardo Dias Souza
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Angela Maria Alonso; Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros; André Pereira Botelho; José Gonçalves Gondra; Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
Advisor: Angela Maria Alonso
Abstract

The main topic of this thesis comes from the supposition that education is a main sphere in the analysis of Brazilian Empire political crisis and its social renovation patterns developed during Pedros II reign (1840-1889). The routines of three schools considered here as modulates that time Colégio Pedro II, founded in Rio in 1837; Ginásio Baiano, from Salvador in 1858; and Culto à Ciência founded in Campinas in 1874 generated different socialization patterns. These patterns, as shown in this work, had political meanings. The purpose was 1. to notice the didactical and curricular logics of these three institutions its educational projects as source of themes and questions that denote innovations and transformations in the concept of education of the time, to 2. analyze how these innovations could be disseminated through the agents involved at schools organization, basically teachers and students. The intention is to show the practice of educational projects working through those relations. As doing so, this work wants to suggest, when observed the trajectories of some chosen agents from the tree institutions, the relation between educational projects and political action at a political crisis moment as complementary spheres. The use of the concept of repertoire as proposed by Ann Swidler (1986; 1995; 2001), here adapted as an educational repertoire, allows the association between culture here, in its educational sphere and politics. Doing so, Colégio Pedro II the main school of Brazilian Empire is taken as the source of an educational repertoire. This so called imperial repertoire, faced with different situations in distinct places as Bahia and São Paulo provinces and through the performances of directors and teachers as Abílio Borges and João Köpke, were adapted to new contexts, answering the same questions with new answers. The modern educational repertoire improved by Borges and Kökpe reinforces the similarity between education and politics, opening the political field to dissonant proposals, as the abolition of slavery and the Republics system. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/02774-3 - The bachelors and the Empire: academic formation and political experience in Brazil's monarchy crisis (1861-1900)
Grantee:Carlos Eduardo Dias Souza
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate