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RENK, Valquiria Elita. Professores de escolas étnicas no Paraná: manter a cultura ou cumprir as leis?. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.37, pp.1045-1064. ISSN 1981-416X.

This article situates the role of teachers of ethnic schools in the maintenance process of an ethnic culture, at the same time, to obey the state laws for education in Paraná State. The period of time under analyzes goes from the end of XIX century until the 1940s. The main reason is to observe the teacher’s situation at schools that should attend the ethnic communities and at once assist the foreign community in the maintenance cultural identification and follow State Legislation. The sources of research are the school records of former ethnic schools, government reports, school laws, letters of government, associations and also the testimonials of former students who had attended those schools at the period studied. Due to pressure to nationalize the children’s foreign trough by the school, the school laws started to monitor and to inspect the schools, to homogenize the teaching through the unique curriculum, adoption of textbooks and standardization of patriotic civic activities, as well as the mandatory teaching of history, geography, moral and civic education of Brazil in the mother language. Schools and teachers found mechanisms to evade the law and maintain ethnic identity until compulsory the nationalization in 1938 until the closing of ethnic schools.

Palabras clave : Ethnics Schools; Teachers; Nationalization.

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