Educar-se para educar: O projeto pedagógico do Monsenhor Álvaro Negromonte dirigido a professoras e famílias através de impressos (1936-1964)

Abstract

This work deals with the pedagogical project of Monsignor Álvaro Negromonte, from a set of educational printings published between 1936 and 1964, aimed at different audiences. Recognized among his peers as one of the great leaders of the renewal of religious education in the 1930s, Álvaro Negromonte became deeply involved in the educational debates of his time, producing a wide range of educational printings aimeing as prime targets the school and the families. Organized in different formats, the printings published by Monsignor Álvaro Negromonte for teachers and families are analyzed in this research as part of a Pedagogic Library built over eighteen years, focused also to the renewal of religious teaching. The objective is to understand the points of contact that wove these projects: training of teachers, catechists and education of families, linking them to each other and the larger one, facing to re- Catholicize society. The two classes of printings used by the priest - books and newsletters - addressed to schools and families in this research are understood as cultural objects, taken as units of analysis in its production, considering its form and content. Educational practices analyzed in this study were perceived as cultural practices aimed to set new values and behavior codes, created other representations for the educator, linking the pedagogical contributions of new times to elementary knowledge of the Catholic faith. The two projects hereby analyzed are complementary and point to the importance the woman figure took in Negromonte s work. Fostered under the aegis of Catholic Action, the work of the priest passed first by faith education of women that, exercising their role as teachers at school or mothers at their homes, were being trained to work in Brazil ecclesial and social life.