Abstract

GONCALVES NETO, Wenceslau  and  MAGALHAES, Justino Pereira de. In search of the school building: contribution to the Local History of Education (S. Vicente de Pereira parish, Ovar, 1888-1892). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.2, pp.649-672.  Epub June 05, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v19n2-2020-22.

The text focuses on a less enlightened theme in the History of Education in Portugal - the educational statute of the parish in the context of school provision. The parish constituted the geographical, administrative and social instance of school literacy. It is a study of microhistory, perhaps of “small history”, but representative of a historical cycle of school universalization in Portugal, at the end of the Eight Hundred. It is based on documents from the Ovar Municipal Archive and the parish of São Vicente de Pereira, such as minute books, correspondence and the press. The process of construction of the school building for boys is recovered between 1888 and 1892, as a result of the effort of the Parish Council and a “Brazilian” of that parish who, for this purpose, managed to obtain donate land and a significant amount of money from friends residing in Brazil. Thus, it was possible to understand part of the complexity of the schooling process that was intended in Portugal in the late nineteenth century.

Keywords : Instruction in Portugal; School construction; São Vicente de Pereira parish.

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