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SANTOS, Ademir Valdir dos. Alemanha perdida? Escolarização de crianças em colônias de imigrantes alemães no sul do Brasil. Perspectiva [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.03, pp.841-874. ISSN 0102-5473.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the South region of Brazil received thousands of German immigrants’ families. They opened up community based schools inside the colonies that became an ethnic mark of identity. But in the fi rst decades of last century those schools were the target of nationalist campaigns which required its closing or a complete transformation. This study aims to remember and analyze memories about the school based on interviews with representatives of three generations of descendants of German immigrants. Concerning the methodology, their schooling trajectories are analyzed under an ethnological perspective based on the testimonies, by documentary sources and in dialogue with other researches on the relationship between education and immigration in Brazilian lands. It shows that children were forced into learn Portuguese and change their behavior, which caused evasion and the children were held back. It is assumed that the perpetuation of positive or traumatic memories of schooling is used to reinforce and reaffirm affection, consanguinity and belonging to a common cultural heritage. This way, the mental representations of the inhabitants perpetuate the idea of making part of a Brazilian Europe. Besides the social preservation of “Germanity”.

Palabras clave : Immigration; Children; Elementary School.

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