Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Marcus Aurelio Taborda de. The work ethos in brazilian education journals: handworks as sign of pedagogical modernization (1906 - 1934). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.18, n.2, pp.386-405.  Epub Sep 26, 2019. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v18n2-2019-7.

This study intends to discuss the Handworks presence in two pedagogical Brazilian journals: A Escola, published between 1906 and 1921 in Paraná state, and Revista do Ensino, published between 1925 and 1940, in Minas Gerais state, and the Manoel Penna’s textbook Trabalhos Manuais Escolares, published in Minas Gerais in 1934. Beyond the concerns with workers formation for the factories, the primary school used different curricular strategies to stimulate students' activities. They were centered in students’ experiences so as to develop a disposition for action, according to the modern industrial world. Expressed in various ways between the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century in virtually all Western world, the relation between education and work presupposed the mobilization of corporal senses for the development of appropriate sensibilities for a new world. That intention was to stimulate action, will development, and creative capacity, all modernizing signs of the primary school and of Brazilian society, as show the Manoel Penna textbook highlighted in this article.

Keywords : Curriculum history; Body education; Education of senses and sensibilities; Education and work, Handworks.

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