Abstract

GONCALVES NETO, Wenceslau  and  CARVALHO, Carlos Henrique de. Methodo Penido: state and municipality in the struggle for literacy training in the society of Minas Gerais at the end of the nineteenth century. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.18, n.1, pp.21-42.  Epub May 06, 2019. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v18n1-2019-3.

Beginning in the 1890s in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a governmental concern arose regarding general public education, with an attempt to overcome illiteracy and create structures for progress in education through drafting a law of public education (1892) and regulation of schools (1893). Other practices were also encouraged, such as publication of the Methodo Penido (Penido Method) by Agostinho Penido, which was published in 1890 and widely distributed among schools in Minas Gerais. However, no remaining copy of this method is known, nor studies on its author. This study used sources of the Public Archives of Minas Gerais and the Municipal Archives of Ouro Preto. We aimed to recover the trajectory of Agostinho Penido, the process of evaluation, granting awards, and adoption of the method on the part of the government, and the subsequent spread of the method. The importance of literacy training in the society of Minas Gerais at the beginning of the Republic and the participation of intellectuals in education in seeking alternatives to deal with this issue are in evidence.

Keywords : Literacy training; Penido method; Minas Gerais.

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