Conhecimentos pedagógicos como orientação para a "missão docente": a formação na Escola Normal de Niterói na Primeira República (1893-1915)

Abstract

The research analyze the political aspect of teacher training by normal school at Niteroi city, between 1893 and 1915. The project of institutionalization and affirmation represented a time of significant in the profession. Therefore associate with republicans ideals and modernity, thus highlighting the movement and ownership of pedagogical theories. We attempted the place of educational theories and knowledge in the institutional teachers training. Understanding to what extent the representations about the teacher mission was present in the President of States speeches at the period. With that purpose we analyze educational reforms and the frequent insertion and withdrawals of school subjects. Under intense debate going on in the government, about what to teach to the people and teachers . Because the desire was acquaintance who was able to open mind of Brazilian citizens, change their habits and inserts it into modernity. Aspects that are consistent with the building of the Republican spirit . We analyze the education legislation, to understand how it worked and what contributed this school to the history of Fluminense education. Were also analyzed school programs and discipline, some admissions examinations e written test too. We used the president of the state messages (1894 to 1915), the laws of public education (1893, 1895, 1900, 1912 and 1915), especially the admission examination to the Normal Scholl at Niteroi city (1901-1908).The year-end exams of students (1897 to 1911) and a diary of geography (1915).These documents are reviewed under extensive historiography about the teacher training and allowed to know school practices of institution. The laws that changed the programs attempted to insert more scientific way and were questioned about the practical matter. Thus, the subjects had to articulate the theory and experience contributing the ability of the teacher. Learning is verified by final exams, which succeed the exams on Saturdays and regular tests Examine was a power device that compared and exclude, not just measure knowledge. Therefore investigate the teaches training show us the historical joints and power relationship that were part of it. The documental research shows a need to enlarge the overview about teachers training in the First Republic, have in mind that there were efforts to organize the public education, mainly regarding the Normal School of Niteroi city.