Abstract

ROSSI, Ednéia Regina. Primary School education in the First Republic (1889-1929). Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.45, pp.159-171. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v22i45.1048.

This article aims to reflect about the relation between educational projects in the First Brazilian Republic (1899-1929) and modern and enlightened thinking. The First Republic was characterized by the implementation of educational reforms in different Brazilian States. These projects, although having particularities from state to state, in general terms, shared the ideal of normalizing, professionalizing and systemizing the schooling of the popular classes. In terms of formative purposes, the school had explicit acculturation and socialization goals. By means of the school, for example, children would become adult men and women with national feelings and subdued to authority not by means of fear, but by the reason that judges and decides. This new control mechanism, made of rationality, to be developed by the school, can be observed in the structuring intentions of primary school and on the knowledge by it transmitted. At the same time, these projects intended to homogenize mores, habits and desires, outlining a directed and controlled education system, thus producing unification of the Brazilian Nation and producing the required equity by modern democracy.

Keywords : History of Brazilian Education; First Republic and modernity; Homogenized Education and sovereignty.

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