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| Author(s): |
Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH) |
| Defense date: | 2015-07-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira;
Bruno Bontempi Junior;
Thomás Augusto Santoro Haddad
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| Advisor: | Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira |
| Abstract | |
In 1934, a group of Italian professors, called the Italian Mission, was hired to teach some disciplines of exact sciences and literature areas of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras of the Universidade de São Paulo. In this work, we study both institutional and diplomatic negotiations related to the Mission arriving between Italian and Brazilian governments , based on an extensive series of documents obtained in archives of both sides. The reception in the press and the circulation of these professors in many institutions including the university were studied taking some newspapers as sources. Public speeches of the group were analyzed focusing on their considerations on both the high school system and some educational discussions of the period. We also studied the contributions of the Mission for the constitution of the first generation of Brazilian mathematicians, specially their motivation for the research, the insertion in an international net of researches and the production of the first PhDs thesis on the subject. We observed that the very presence of the fascist regime in the hiring process of the Mission and the fellowship of the group to the fascist national party was not seem as a problem in the Brazil at the beginning of the process. Following the work of the Italian Mission, we see the deterioration of the conditions of permanence of the Italian professors only in 1942 with the rupture of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Italy, when the Mission is dismantled. We would like to sustain that the arriving of the Italian Mission would not be analyzed only from the point of view of the imperialist fascist Italy, who in fact intended to influence the Brazilian scientific field, but as a intercultural encounter, where both Brazil and Italy took advantage in the process (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/24076-3 - Modern Mathematics and Italian identity in Brazilian writers of textbooks formation |
| Grantee: | Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |