Abstract

PESSANHA, Eurize Caldas  and  MOREIRA, Kênia Hilda. Textbooks during the “Organic Law” of Secondary Education: sources for studying the history of school disciplines. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.24, e2025-41.  Epub Jan 12, 2026. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v24-e2025-41.

This article aims to analyze how the history of two school subjects, Brazilian History and Portuguese Language, can be written using textbooks produced/adapted to meet the requirements of the Capanema Reform (1942-1961) as sources and how this history connects to the history of secondary education. Two textbooks for each subject were analyzed, aligned with the corresponding curricular programs, covering the period of validity of the Organic Law of Secondary Education. The link between the analyzed books was the "formation of patriotic consciousness" established in the Explanatory Memorandum that supported the reform. The conclusion was drawn that there are particularities between the subjects, and especially between the analyzed textbooks, since the way the programs were followed varied in each case, even though they belonged to the same time frame and the same level of education.

Keywords : Capanema Reform; Portuguese Language; History of Brazil.

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