Revista Brasileira de História da Educação
On-line version ISSN 2238-0094
Abstract
CAMARGO, Alexandre de Paiva Rio. Povoar o hinterland o ensino rural como fronteira entre estatística e educação na trajetória de Teixeira de Freitas. Rev. Bras. Hist. Educ [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.02, pp.97-132. ISSN 2238-0094.
This article presents the dual rise of Mário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (1890-1956) in charge of national statistics and the debate on education, by the time of Vargas Regime (1930- 1945). Investigating Freitas’s trajectory, this work interprets his investment in educational field as a strategy to convert the social capital he accumulated in the Ministry of Education (bureaucratic field) and the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (science field). By doing so, we sought to express the consistency and reception of the distinguished statistical’s ideas for rural education, his gateway in educational debates. This case study may be helpful for further analysis on the relations between the statistical and education institutional activities over the period in focus.
Keywords : Statistical Institutions; Educational Statistics; Symbolical Power; Rural Education; Cultural Policies in Brazil by the Time of Vargas Regime.