O Colégio Casa de Nossa Senhora em Santos-SP (1933-1947): os caminhos da educação primária e profissionalizante

Abstract

This research is part of the research line Educational Institutions, History, Politics and Management Processes. In this line is inserted the ¿ Laboratory of Information, Archive and Memory of Education (Liame), where this work was developed, which seeks to understand the primary and professional education in Santos/SP (1933-1947), carried out by the Missionaries of Jesus Crucified, a religious congregation founded by d. Francisco Campos Barreto and Maria Villac, in Campinas/SP, in 1928. The interest of this study is to raise awareness of the importance of working with primary and professional education for the aforementioned missionaries in Santos, a pioneer at the time it was carried out. Due to the intimate correlation, the research aims to jointly address the activity in favor of the stratum of society to which they were dedicated and the history of the congregation, since its origin in Campinas, and the primary and vocational education offered by Colégio Casa de Nossa Senhora, founded and directed by them in the period from 1933 to 1947, in Santos/SP. The specific objectives will consist of pointing out some aspects of the history of this congregation in Campinas, in addition to the context of the city and the birth of the institution, and its territorial expansion. I want more; identify the paths of primary and professional education offered by Colégio Casa de Nossa Senhora and the context of the city and religious institutes in Brazil; highlight the educational practices carried out in this school and its particular school culture. The sources of the congregation were researched; dialoguing with them, what was intended was to know the rule, the guidelines, and the origin of this institution. From this documental survey, find evidence that reveals educational practices and the role of the missionaries in the field of education in Santos/SP. The problem is to understand the importance of working with the primary and professional education of the Missionaries of Jesus Crucified in Santos. Methodologically, this research was framed in the field of History of Education, with a thematic approach in the area of School Institutions, based on documentary and bibliographical research. This allowed for analysis and interpretations of the sources. The survey of minutes and books tombo, in addition to the story told by the institution itself. The researched documentation showed that, through the Colégio Casa de Nossa Senhora, the missionaries carried out an educational and social work recognized by the society of Santos. This social notability highlights the traces of the school culture transmitted through discipline, subjects, norms and rites. Such educational practices contributed to achieving the goal of training citizen students, aware of their social responsibility. From these perspectives, the categories that permeated the entire research were the Church, the State, society and education. Taking these categories as guidelines for the research, the contexts of the history of education, politics and the Church throughout the period studied (1933-1947) were analyzed nationwide.