“O bedel desempenha bem o lugar”: narratives about secondary education workers in Parahyba do Norte (1842-1888)

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BARROS, Surya Aaronovich Pombo de  e  LIRA, Vanessa Gonçalves. “O bedel desempenha bem o lugar”: narratives about secondary education workers in Parahyba do Norte (1842-1888). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-68.  Epub 17-Mar-2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-68.

The article discusses the existence of a job performed in the secondary school universe in the 19th century: the beadle. This is a role present in different spaces such as public offices, churches, and especially in high schools. The beadle's role was to discipline students, maintain order, assist the management and teachers, among others. The first part of the text investigates these obligations in different provincial laws of the North region (currently the Northeast), in dialogue with the historiography of Brazilian education. The second part focuses on Paraíba, following the trajectory of three individuals who held the position there. With the contributions of the social history of education, and the orientation of history seen from below, the importance of historiography in looking not only at students and teachers, but also at other roles performed in the world of work in 19th-century education is highlighted.

Palavras-chave : Beadle; Paraíba; 19th century; Secondary education; Education workers.

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