A escola e o bairro : o papel da escola Padre Josué Bardin na construção da identidade dos moradores do bairro São João Bosco 1982-1993

Abstract

The teaching of history has relevant subject’s identity construction role, by stimulating subject’s criticality starting from a reflection of historic nature. Thus, thinking about the function of the school together with subject’s interaction in society, the schoool gets an own meaning by the context that exists in the neighbourhood, even tough a public institution, with legislation and structure arising from the external power. Realizing the significative social function exercised by the school, this project aims at examine the construction of identity for local residents of São João Bosco - PROMORAR neighbourhood located in Nova Prata city, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. The neighbourhood arises in the 80’s with the necessity of soften the housing problems of the lacking portion of the city’s population. Concomitant with the neighbourhood’s rising there is the beginning of the activities at Padre Josué Bardin Municipal College in the year of one thousand nine hundred and eight three, to attend the children from that location.