Didactics books and teaching of History in the Reform João Pinheiro: Minas Gerais State, 1906 1911

Author(s)

Andre Coura Rodrigues

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-05-21

Examining board members

Circe Maria Fernandes Bittencourt; Luiz Carlos Barreira; Carlota Josefina Malta Cardozo dos Reis Boto

• Advisor: Circe Maria Fernandes Bittencourt

Abstract

This search recovers the history of didactics books in Minas Gerais State in the period between the years 1906 and 1911, at the beginning of the Education Reform João Pinheiro. We followed the process of restructuring of school promoted by the President of State João Pinheiro, the Secretary of Interior Carvalho Britto and other individuals involved with the educational processes at that moment of the history of the State (school directors, school inspectors, teachers). We had chosen the discipline History because we believe that this knowledge was under the influence of the republican politic from Minas Gerais State, and the politicians used it as an instrument to disseminate the values of the new order established. Through research of the history of the book, we made investments in other instances responsible for its writing, divulgation, distribution and other relationships with the public primary education in Minas Gerais State. In this research, we were faced with a situation where different forces made up a scenario of conflict of interests inside and outside school, making the devices of school instruction at the center of discussions. We reveal the identities and strategies of the subject involved with the school transformations, in the official order of the regulations and in the school daily, with the school books in the intersection between them. (AU)