A presença de Luiz Damasceno Penna na Delegacia Regional de Ensino de Santos do Estado de São Paulo (1932-1957).

Abstract

This research investigates the life and work of Luiz Damasco Penna, an educator in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, that acted for a period of over forty years in the state¿s public primary education, first as an elementary school teacher, then as principal, Regional Education Officer in the school district of Santos and District Inspector. We focused our attention in the presence of Penna as Regional Education Officer in the coast of São Paulo and all the challenges he faced in the period between 1932 and 1957, but also his pedagogical thinking introduced in the administration of more than 424 isolated schools in the region. Luiz Damasco Penna had an outstanding performance in São Paulo¿s education not only as a Regional Education Officer, but also as part of elaborating committees for the Education Code of 1933, the Education Laws of 1947, and internal commissions comprised of several Education Officers, counsellor in the Education Technical Counsel in the nineteen fifties and translator of pedagogical works of French and Spanish authors for Editora Nacional¿s collection Atualidades Pedagógicas, also as a college professor in the Chair of Business Administration in the Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Santos. We also investigate the universe of the Education Officers and the pedagogical thinking constructed in the administration of primary education.