Memórias de professores e alunos no contexto escolar de Canela, RS (1930-1960)

Abstract

This study aimed to recount memories of teachers and students in the Canela‟s context in the period 1930-1960. Thinking about the school‟s cultures of the location, it seeks to construct a narrative guided by the assumptions of Cultural History, considering the contributions of Burke in his research that highlights the story of ordinary people, for instance the “history from below”. Applying the methodology of oral history, it was realized interviews with people who were part of the Canela‟s school contexts, in the present time, considering these people part of this relation, listening to their practices and describing their experiences into these education establishments. The intention was to hear how they understood and realized the practice in the schools through their own point of view. The interviews were conducted with eight students and of those six have become teachers in Canela, three belonging to the period of this research and activeness in the municipality. The narrative was organized into three chapters. The historical context, focusing on the political-economic and cultural dimensions of Canela were thought to then narrate as if were the first schools of Canela, its spaces as well as some evidence of the teacher‟s life history. The memories and images of the existing school‟s cultures in the context with the subjects, spaces and knowledges, analyzed in the decades from 1930 to 1960, revealed that school practices have been historically constituted by interests of teachers and many laymen. Only over time it became of interest to administrators of the municipality of Canela, which caused a significant increase in schools and, with them, the amount of teachers also increased. The experiences narrated in the memoirs and recorded in the photographs allow us to understand the educational practices for teachers and students. Facing the results and constructed narratives, the importance of this research is showed for the canelense community and also for studies in History of Education.