Abstract

BRITO, Silvia Helena Andrade de; BARROS, Fernanda  and  OLIVEIRA, Stella Sanches de. The Expansion of Secondary Education in the Central-West Region of Brazil: States of Mato Grosso and Goiás (1942-1961). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.22, e198.  Epub Aug 07, 2023. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v22-2023-198.

According to the administrative division established in 1950 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the states of Mato Grosso and Goiás composed the Central-West region. This is the locus of this article, which will focus on the process of expansion of secondary education in the two states, from 1942 to 1961. The aim of this study is to analyze the similarities and the particular features present in secondary education in Mato Grosso and Goiás. To do so, documentary sources of historiography and of the history of secondary education will be used. The elements that will be discussed include the existing collections and their impact on the proposed analyses, the implementation and expansion of secondary education in Mato Grosso and Goiás (type of school, enrollment, regions served, and other aspects), and relationship between the social development of the region and the expansion of the secondary education network, emphasizing that which is similar and that which is different in that process of expansion in the two states.

Keywords : Secondary education; Goiás; Mato Grosso.

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