Resumo

VANZ, Samanta; DEWES, Elisângela Cândido da Silva  e  SOUZA, José Edimar de. Representations of Nationalism and Patriotism in Primary Schools of Caxias do Sul (1939-1955). Acta Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.1, e69129.  Epub 01-Ago-2024. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v46i1.69129.

This study aims at analyzing the representations of nationalism articulated with the conceptions of a progressive education, present in the practices and materials that made up the school culture in primary education in the municipality of Caxias do Sul, located in the south of Brazil (Serra Gaúcha), between 1939 and 1955. To this end, the study is developed from the perspective of Cultural History, thinking “[...] culture as a set of meanings shared and constructed by men to explain the world” (Pesavento, 2012, p. 15); in the understanding that representations are intertwined in a multiplicity of ways that subjects have to express themselves: written texts, images, rituals, practices, discourses and materials (Chartier, 2002). In this perspective, this piece of research is methodologically founded on documental analysis, based on the following sources: photographs, circular letters, teaching syllabus, a pedagogical newspaper entitled Despertar- documents produced by the public teaching organ- and other printed media, produced by a local press. These sources were accessed from João Spadari Adami Historical Archive of Caxias do Sul and the Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library. As considerations, the study allowed to recognize that in this southern region of the country, the ideas of renewal of pedagogical practices circulated among public schools with the encouragement and organization of the municipal educational body, of a series of propositions that mixed actions and materials considered modern, with practices that exercised behaviors to strengthen a patriotic spirit, constituting a model of Brazilian citizen projected by nationalist ideas.

Palavras-chave : nationalism; escola nova; school culture; primary education.

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