Abstract

CARVALHO, Bruno Bernardes  and  CARVALHO, Carlos Henrique de. The municipality and the organization of public instruction: an analysis based on the educational action of the City Council of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, 1889-1915. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-54.  Epub Mar 17, 2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-54.

This article deals with the process of organizing public instruction observed in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, at the beginning of the First Republic (1889-1915). By analyzing local specificities, it was possible to identify educational actions taken by the municipality, enabling an understanding of the schooling process that occurred. To this end, we resorted to the following sources: Minutes and Resolutions of the City Council; Exam minutes; Correspondence; Enrollment Maps; Payment Receipts; and Inspection Reports. These documents made it possible to identify that the Juiz de Fora City Council was directly involved with education, allowing us to affirm the existence of its own schooling within the municipality. However, the educational action resulting from these initiatives was marked by contradictions inherent to the dynamics of organizing instruction in the city of Juiz de Fora, that is: the local government acted in matters of education; but faced limits in its educational action, due to the existing municipal deficiencies at the time.

Keywords : Organization of instruction; City Council; Pedagogical municipality.

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