Pelas páginas da Revista A Escola Primária: circulação de modelos e práticas pedagógicas na escrita de educadoras escolanovistas

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to examine the circulation of pedagogical models and practices in the writings of school educators who contributed to the magazine A Escola Primaria. This involved understanding their presence in the periodical as a result of their work in schools, positions in public administration, associative practices, production of printed materials, social networks, and educational trips. Maria Amélia Daltro Santos, Maria do Carmo Vidigal Pereira das Neves, Celina Padilha, Maria dos Reis Campos, and Alba Cañizares do Nascimento were selected from a thorough survey of women who published in the magazine between 1916 and 1937, the period during which it was in circulation. Created by the first school inspector of the Federal District, Esther Pedreira de Mello, who used her prestige to highlight the ideas of her professional group in the educational debate of the time, A Escola Primaria is interpreted as a vehicle for communication and dissemination of innovations for primary education in the early decades of the 20th century. When examining the publication, it became necessary to cross-reference various and scattered sources—books, memoirs, correspondence, autobiographies, and travel reports—which made it possible to trace the importance of the periodical in disseminating the ideas of the Escola Nova movement and, above all, to glimpse professional paths and highlight women who still remain in the shadow of educational historiography, which has privileged the educators who led reforms.