Resumen

VIEIRA, Carlos Eduardo. José Ricardo Pires de Almeida between two vocations: Politics and Science. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.3, pp.753-771.  Epub 23-Sep-2024. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v14n3-2015-753.

The object of this article is to analyze the work L`Instruction Publique au Brésil: Histoire - Législation, written by Pires de Almeida, in 1889. We start with the challenges given by two specific aspects: on one hand, we aim to explain the political convictions defended by the author, particularly the idea of the superiority of public education in Brazil compared to the other countries in South America; and, on the other hand, we will invest in the discussion of the characteristics that legitimized this narrative as an expression of a concept of written history, which aimed to interpret the past with impartiality and objectivity. In this way, during the analysis, we demonstrate that the text reveals the permanent tension between two vocations: politics and science.

Palabras clave : Pires de Almeida; Public Education in Brazil; The Second Reign; History of Education; The Writing of History.

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