Instruir e Civilizar: Medeiros e Albuquerque entre práticas e redes de sociabilidade na primeira república

Abstract

Interpreting Education of the beginning of republic, in practices carried out by José Joaquim de Campos da Costa de Medeiros e Albuquerque, through multiple facets of this person - politician, writer, Immortal of Brazilian Academy of Letters, director of the Public Instruction of Federal District (1897 - 1906) and intellectual traveler - is the purpose of this study. As intellectual, he legitimized himself among the generation of men of letters known as "Boêmia", at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century. He acted, using the practice of political speech, in favor of abolition and attending the group of republicans led by Silva Jardim. He left to posterity a vast literary production, with emphasis on writing memories, as: "My life" (in two volumes), "When I was alive" and "By Other Lands"; works that help to interpret his educational practices and bring light to political conflicts of the time. In Public Education, he reformed all municipal education, expanded primary education, ending high school and worked for women's magisterium. For this interpretation, I use the documents found in archives that, cross-linked, contribute to compose the traces of this person in education. These sources were located through the research in the National Library Foundation (FBN); in the Archives of Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL); in the Collection of Rui Barbosa s House Foundation (FCRB) and in the General Archive of the City of Rio de Janeiro (AGCRJ). I dialogue with the works of Nagle (1974) and Carvalho (1990), that embrace republic in Brazil; Nora (1993) and Pollak (1992), with their studies on memory and identity; about intellectuals and their practices, I emphasize Sirinelli (1996), Gomes (2016) and El Far (1998) (2006); the questions related to the reform practices ahead Public Instruction, Mignot (2013), Gondra (2004), Almeida (1998) and his work as an intelectual traveler, together with the production of Silva (2012) (2017) and Mignot and Gondra (2007). The trajectory of Medeiros and Albuquerque, focusing on his practices, allows understanding more about republican education in the field of studies of History Education