Abstract

BERNARDI, Manuela Ciconetto  and  LUCHESE, Terciane Ângela. Civil marriage records and the History of Education: some methodological discussions. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-57.  Epub Mar 17, 2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-57.

The production of literacy rates based on signatures from civil records in the Antônio Prado, Caxias, Garibaldi, Nova Trento and Bento Gonçalves towns, belonging to the Italian Colonial Region of Rio Grande do Sul (RCI/RS), it is an investigative path that demands methodological explanation, which is the focus of this article. In view of this, we discuss the use of signatures as an indicator of written knowledge, based on authors who have already mobilized similar sources, such as Chartier (1991) and Magalhães (1994). In this text, we present excerpts and choices for measuring signatures, report the procedures for constructing the data and the analytical movements to support the narrative. This study corroborates the need to highlight and explain the path taken in documentary sources and shows that there are not many national studies that use signatures to investigate educational processes, showing possibilities for using, systematizing and interpreting these signatures.

Keywords : History of education; Literacy rates; Civil records.

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