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The aim of this research is a public primary school from Minas Gerais, named Grupo Escolar de Uberaba, the first institution of this kind in the city. It refers to a research in the field of the School Institutions History. The research hermeneutics admits some questioning about the historical identity of Grupo Escolar de Uberaba from 1908 to 1918, with the hypothesis that the school institution founded according to the republican ideals of the First Republic (positivism, nationalism, liberalism, laicity) was significant to a great part of the population from Uberaba as a form of propagation of these ideals which were in search of modernization and values such as order, progress, civility, public spirit, rationalization, hierarchy, hygienics. It was also the place of contradictional demonstrations of this period, some of them promoted by the republican moment itself and the others by the specific characteristics of the local society. The research was carried out from the following analysis categories: the motivation to found and install the Primary School, the spatial dimension (the shape and location of the school building), the students and teachers profile, as well as the school daily routine. The heuristics counted on the documents from the Minas Gerais Public Archive and the local press. The data obtained were interpreted from the revealed analysis categories with the special consideration of the reflexive relations between the private the Primary School, the city of Uberaba and, in general, the wider school historical context. The results obtained made the construction of a significant historical memory possible supporting the central subject and confirming the raised hypothesis. This school had historically constructed itself as a traditional teaching institution in Uberaba, still in activity. Due to the longevity of its existence through different moments of the Brazilian education, it would be interesting that other researches could be accomplished, regarding the other national historical moments. There is still a lot to be historically reconstructed besides the highlighted ten first years shown in this work.

The present study is result of our research concerning the history of the school institution called Judiciary Assistance (Assistência Judiciária) of Federal University of Uberlândia (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia) - UFU, supported for the Law School "Prof. Jacy de Assis" since September 1st 1969. The Judiciary Assistance works like a nucleus of theoretical and practical formation for Law students. Although the existence of research and description-educational studies concerning the Law school, any reference to the history of the Judiciary Assistance exists but there are important and interesting facts during the period between 1977 and 1987 that they are worth a deeper study. After reviewing a vast array of documents that portray this period, our work involved cataloguing and interpreting these elements of the institutional memory. For in such a way we opt by Carlo Ginzburg´s paradigms method, that it considers a history study reconstruction, through of the joint interpretation of "myths", "emblems" and "signals" in different sources, but that they are complemented in the reconstruction of pertaining to a school memory. The data used for this work were founded in our own UFU Memory Center: General Archive and the Center of Historical Documentation and also in the Magazine of the Law School and the Uberlândia`s city Public Archive. However the institution keeps its activities still; the analyzed period finishes in 1987 because after this time it had a big transformation and it would be necessary to study other areas. The educational and social importance of its work is clear because besides supporting students in their practical knowledge, the Judiciary Assistance also helps the Uberlândia citizens with free legal services.

This dissertation has as object of study the formation and the knowing of teachers who work in Vila Isabel Rural Settlement, situated in the South region of Bahia State. The purposes of the research were: Identifying the teachers knowing and experiences; showing their singularities; and sketching the identities of those professionals by the knowledge they mobilize in classroom and their similarities and differences. In charge of achieving this investigation, a qualitative approach was used, with the aim for enabling a better analysis of the teachers professional formation, considering their social context, their life histories and their ways of comprehending and acting in the world. The thematic oral history was used as a metodology that makes possible the study of people s experience, searching for the grasp of facts that might reveal the identity of the teachers from the narrative of the participants. The information was collected by half-structuralized individual interviews and the application of a questionnaire, which were realized with a group of six teachers, registered in audio and whole written. Through what was reported by the educators, we were disclosed the importance of the knowing that comes from the experience for the educational practice, and even the influence of the social context on the teacher s action. However, the collaborators point out that the theoretical fundamentals are indispensable and they are present in their educational activities. It also became evident that the teacher s formation happens through discontinuities and for a not determined period, where the several pedagogical trends and models of performance get mixed, since the technicist one up to the teacher as a critic intellectual. The Movement of Fight for the Land and its ideals are constituted as educational agents, becoming basic elements in the formation of the individuals students and teachers who perform in that social context. With this investigation, we try to open a way of possibilities, reviving a dream, giving a voice to historical individuals and their real experiences that were marked by victories, failures and resistance.

This study analyzes the current situation of Music teaching in the Kindergarten Education as well as in the first years of Elementary School, in the city of Uberlandia - MG It focus on the teaching methods of artistic language, its uses and functions in a school context, in order to verify the changes occurred in the music teaching methods after 10 years of the creation of the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional - Law nº9394/96. Interviews with the superviser of the Superintendencia Regional de Ensino and also with the coordinator of Arts from the Secretaria de Educaçao of Uberlandia City.Some official documents are taken as reference for this study, such as RCN and PCN, elaborated by the Ministry of Education and the Guides concerning the teaching of arts: music, elaborated by the State and County Department of Education. The analisis of datas indicates that the situation of Music teaching hasn t been enhanced as it should be according to official orientations. Music has been developed as pedagogical resources on studies of different subjetcts. It has been taught in schools by non-specialized teachers and it is also noticed that Music is not part of the school program. It is concluded that despite all the difficulties found on Music teaching process whether developed upon official orientation can be successfully included in the school context, specifically in the area of Uberlandia city.

The aim of this work is to analyze the development of the instruction in the Province of Minas Gerais between 1580 and 1889. We intend to understand the objectives and intentions that orientated the school organization in the mining province, which were the financial resources used for the maintenance of the schools, as well what kind of individual was supposed to be formed through education. The initial period of our study was delimited taken into consideration the consolidation of the political-administrative unit capable to overcome the rebellions occurred at the end of the mid 19th century. We established as a final historical mark of our work the fall of the Monarchic regime in 1889. As a main research source we used the educational legislation and the Province President s Reports produced during the period mentioned above. It is from this data that we arrived at the conceptions of education, progress and civilization in the mining society. During the Imperial period in Minas Gerais, learning processes of reading and writing were linked to the moral instruction. Major elite will consider this as a creation mean of new social practices. The speeches demonstrate that instruction was considered a fundamental way to civilize and to impose moral conceptions on the population. However, during the period here investigated, we observed a lack of continuity of the proposals that intended to reform and to restructure the mining education in the late 19th century.

This work aims to reconstruct through history and memory the origin and consolidation of Liceu de Uberlândia school between 1928 and 1942. It puts into evidence some analytical perspectives related to schools in the light of the current historical analysis which focuses more on particular (local) facts rather than general ones. Presented by the Annales review, published in 1929, this historical approach became prominent through the socalled French revolution of historiography and deals not only with great events, but also with the micro-history. In this regard, this research s subject-matter contributes very much to the knowledge on the local education and culture. Besides contextualizing national, regional and local political facts, this research treats of the João Pinheiro, Francisco Campos e Capanema educational reforms and their influences on Liceu. Methodological procedures included analysis of primary sources such as a report, documents, newspaper articles and images, as well as applying of oral history techniques to the accounts of Liceu s former students who later taught there and their family members. Data revealed that Liceu de Uberlândia was given this name lycée just for it to obtain more credibility in the local society. Seen according to the French conception of lycée, Liceu is little similar to other lycées opened in Brazil; among others, differences included both the extinction of the secondary level and the maintenance of teaching levels that did not comply with the elite. Unlike, a lycée was supposed to offer propaedeutic secondary teaching aimed to educate the ruling classes of a country. Although Liceu was consolidated in 1937 (report of 1942), when it was already operating in its own building and had already educated the first group of students, it went through some financial crisis. And yet, according to our sources, it managed to keep its prestige and credibility in the local society.

This research aims to the theme of the academical teaching, treated nowadays by researchers all over the world. Particularly in Physical Education, it is observed a certain lack of scientific studies which deal with the academical educational practice focusing on the association of the curricular contents with epistemological principles, political-social, cultural and which discuss the quality of the interpersonal relationships between teachers and students. From the diversity of ways of thinking and analyzing the academical teaching, especially the performance of the teacher of Physical Education in IES, arouses as a research problem how do the academical teachers, linked to the Physical Education Major from a public university from Minas Gerais, interpret their own education and professional practice, from the awareness of their academic experiences, that emphasizes the interpersonal relationships, in the planning and in the teaching and learning processes that they implement. Starting from this problem, it is aimed to consider the possible ways of how these teachers interpret their own education and professional practice, in order to understand the relationships that they establish amongst themselves and with the students, while educators, as well as their role in the education on the humanization process. The theoretical referential of this work discusses the Academical Teaching, in a general way, mentioning Tardif and Lessard (2005), Pimenta (2005) and Masetto (1998). It is also mentioned the Academical Teaching in Physical Education, with the contribution of Taffarel and Santos Júnior (2005), Beltrão (2002) and Oro (1994), among others. The first chapter, "Academical Teaching", discusses the general aspects of the academical teaching. The second chapter, Academical Teaching in Physical Education", discusses the comprehension of the teacher's practice in Physical Education in the researched IES, through the categories: interpersonal relationships (RI), planning (P) and the process of teachinglearning (PEA). The third chapter, "Methodological Ways", discusses the methodology of the research, that involves the form and the conception of how the data were collected, analyzed and interpreted. The last chapter, The Physical Education Teacher's View", intends to present the data of the field survey, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted, as well as the results of the discussion, starting from the association and confrontation of these with the theoretical referential of the study. The research of quanti-qualitative approach develops from the answers of the thirteen university permanent teachers of a Physical Education major, to the questionnaire of 36 multiple choice questions, answered according to the Scale of Likert, Rego and Reis (2002), with space for comments and an open question at the end. In the interpretation of the subjects of the research, the results suggest, among others, that the education/qualification of the academical teacher of Physical Education is determined by the educational practice. The results also show that the teachers always create an atmosphere of mutual respect and acceptance of the students' ideas, although they do not always ask stimulating questions encouraging them to reasoning.

The present work if points out in the Line of Research: Politics and Management in Education of the Program of Pós-Graduação in Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia and if consider to investigate, from the analysis of the educational politics of the years of 1990, the implantation of the established accord enters the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU and the Municipal City hall of Uberaba - PMU through the Municipal Foundation of Superior Education of Uberaba - FUMESU. Our trajectory was constructed from the analysis of the changes in the world of the work, the paper of the State in the context of the neoliberal politics and the lapsings of the multilateral organisms as Deep Monetary Internacional-FMI and the Mundial-BM Bank for the developing countries as also the interferences of this context in the educational politics for superior education. The two last decades of century XX had been marked by deep changes in the world of the work with the introduction of the new technologies, with the implantation of neoliberal politics e, consequently, a new reorganization of the capitalist society. In this picture unfoldings in the performance and paper of the State, also in the education had been verified also, by means of the implemented educational politics, in different fields. As for superior education, object of study of this work, can be verified that these changes have implied in new forms of organization, as well as a expressiva expansion of this level of education in the private sector and a new configuration of the public sector. Supported for the qualitative methodology we work with the documentary analysis considering some aspects of the content analysis as the absence, the presence and the frequency with that the elect categories in the theoretical referencial and constructed others from the analyzed documents had appeared, has seen that the content analysis searchs to evidence what it is underlying to that pparently is seen, as well as search to understand the subjectivity of the analyzed content face to the context where the object is inserted. The analyzed experience suggests a change in the character of the FEU/FUMESU with dimensions and characteristics that the diversification and institucional differentiation can assume from the creation of other institucional models that can appear, marked for a deep hibridismo of the models foreseen in the current legislation. Also it evidences the ways covered for the process of magnifying of the privatization of the superior education, also with the support of the state public power.

This paper has the objective of analyzing the professional formation processes coming from the Corporate University. It discusses the precepts of businessmen toward the formation of workers as well as the criticisms created by them concerning the inefficiency of formal schools in the education of the workforce in relation to the needs of the enterprises. Taking as reference the precepts of the alienation by and through work and the crisis of the monopolistic capitalism that imposes drastic conditions of exploitation at the work place, we discuss the capitalist concepts of human education defending that the capitalist informal education project is ideological and contradictory. Contrary to the making of wiser men and holders of technology, what can be seen is the continuation of precarious and alienated forms of work.

In this research, we look forward to understanding how the Pedagogical Project Project Works and Statistical Education at University may contribute to the students professional development of which they are participants. The above project was elaborated in the Mathematics Department of the Federal University of Uberlândia along with the Statatistics and Probability subject. The individuals involved in this project are those students who initiated the Mathematics Course in 2004 and that during our survey they were taking their fourth term in the second semester/2005. The reported project, our research object, was implemented upon five semesters between the years 2004/2006. The dynamics of such project is based on an approach which contemplates the production of projects, given that students are constantly involved while taking the Statistics and Probability subject. In order to understand the problematical nature of the research, whatever it should be, and as the experience with the Pedagogical Project Project Works and Statistical Education at University proved to contribute to the professional growth of students who are part of the project, we carried out interpretative and qualitative investigations within the participant research patterns. The gathering of data was done through observations, allusion documents to the Project, questionnaires and interviews. In the end, we established a data crossing to confront the Project aims and the purpose of this research which was performed from two axis of analysis: first, we analysed the Pedagogical Project Project Works and Statistical Education at University trajectory. Second, we discussed the contribution of this pedagogical practice for the students professional progress. We noticed that the students started to unfold knowledge towards research, teamwork, use of computational means, research methodology, investigation allied with statistical methods. At last, we believe that the students had, added to their participation in this work, the opportunity to enhance their learning for their future career.

This work fits in the research line of Public Policies and Education Management of the Program of Postgraduation in Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia. We explore the policies and proceedings of the third sector in Brazilian education, in the process of reconfiguration of the Restricted State, through the study of a municipal and scholastic management program the Champ School Program conducted by public-private entities in a county of Minas Gerais in the 2001-2004 period. Its goal is considering the emergence and strengthening of such entities go over the role of the third sector on the process of absorption of the public space by modern private enterprises, in the context of the creation of the Ample State and the retrenchment of the Restricted State, within the new wealth cycle. Firstly, we analyse the materialization of these policies in the setting of Montes Claros/MG, through the implementation of the Champ School Program . In this stage, we use, as a source for the research, official documentation of the Program and its management indexes instruments for its control and evaluation. Afterwards, we develop a bibliographical survey on the strategy of the political, economical and social intervention that implemented the public-private segment in Brazil: the Neoliberalism. We finish with a survey about the third sector in Brazilian contemporaneity, discussing its aspects, deadlocks and perspectives. The results from this research bear witness the instrumented functionality of the third sector to the process of reconformation of the Restricted State, through the resignification of the concept of citizenship, the conversion of social rights into benefits, the progressive mixture of public and private forces, and the viabilization of a new modality of privatization of the scholastic process: the public purveyance, with public, private and public-private funding, and public-private management, which originate a new form of capitalist reproduction.

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This work is inserted in the Educational Politics and Management of the pos-graduate program on Education of the Uberlandia Federal University, and has as main subject the politics and practices of professional qualification, implemented in the last half of the decade of 1990 in Brazil. The related subject composes the discussion on the mutations of the world of the work and the qualification of the worker in the restructuring productive context. Its main objective is to analyze the proposals of the Qualification National Plan (PNQ), elaborated for the Ministry of the Work, Job and Income, in the daily activities of one of the entities executors, which is the the Center of Enterprise Excellency in Services - (CENEX), located in Uberlandia MG - Brazil, in the year of 2005. It is intended to understand the relation between education, work, employability, professional qualification in the productive reorganization and the process of the state reconfiguration, in the search to reach the considered objectives. It searched specifically to analyze and to qualify the materialization of the politics of qualification in the 1990 decade in Brazil and, specifically in the CENEX while entity executor of the PNQ in the year of 2005; as well as carrying through the crossing of the data of PLANTEQ-MG/CENEX 2005; of the evaluation reports of the UNITRABALHO PlanTeQ/2004, Final Managemental Report of Accompaniment of the Actions of PNQ/PLANTEQ-MG /2005 presented by the SEDESE. The methodologic procedures use the model of qualitative research. The analyses had been carried through the direct source of the data, of the descriptive nature of the processes and the importance of the direct participation of the citizens, that allows to the researcher to get a wide perception of the object to be investigated in its totality. The investigated entity is executor of the PNQ since 2004, it composes the not formal education system, and offers courses for the formation of the worker. They have as lifting the FADE - Foundation of Support to the Enterprise Development, that in turn is kept by the ACIUB (Commercial and Industrial Association of Uberlandia). In the field research, structuralized and half-structuralized, applied interviews are used for the systemize collection of the data, from a sample of involved professionals in the execution of the PNQ in the year of 2005 in Uberlandia, under the coordination of the SEDESE, as well as the referring documentary analysis to the execution of the PNQ in this period. The bases of this research is confirmed: do not exist direct correspondence between the formation in alternative qualification courses and the job, despite the significative financial transfer and a speech presenting as a natural condition of unemployment is about the lack of qualification, which transfers the responsibility for the individual to employ themselves. Thus, the egresses of the courses show that exactly with some carried through courses, continue dismissed. In such a way, it would empirical data it confirms to this estimated. Rethink of the governmental public politics of professional qualification becomes necessary.

This research is inserted in the History of the educative Institutions and has as object the National Service of Commercial Learning (SENAC) of the city of Uberlândia, MG, in the period from 1954 to 1974. It aims to reconstruct its genesis, formation and consolidation, detaching how the professional formation of youngsters and adults was thought about in the area of the commerce. The period was delimited due to the year where this institution started acting in Uberlândia (1954) and it extends up to 1974, the year where SENAC changed its configuration, acquiring own headquarters and diversifying course supplies. The most general scope also corroborated for the delimitation of this period, so this was of great growth, concerns with the development of the Country and along with this, the idea of that it would be for the education that it would obtain to develop itself. For the accomplishment of this study one consulted different sources. It fits to stand out that it was not found, in the archive of the school, documentations on the initial functioning of the same, but only in the 70´s. The primary sources had been the documents stored (mainly journalistic news) in the Municipal Public Archive of Uberlândia, in the SENAC Of Belo Horizonte, as well as printed and iconographic sources in the very SENAC of Uberlândia. The scarcity of documentary sources printed in the first years of this institution was worked by the note of signals contained in the iconographic sources, in which had indicated names of the first students and employees of the school, which had been interviewed and, for this fact, it used the techniques of verbal history. Intention was to bring those people who witnessed the events and were part of the construction of the historical processes. Amongst the secondary sources one used works that supplied the Brazilian panorama of the period, that certainly influenced in the creation of this school, as well as the history of the SENAC in the country and the state of Minas Gerais. Of the performed analyses, it was perceived, beyond other things, the creation of the SENAC of Uberlândia was imposed by law, but it also was a consequence of the requirements that the commerce placed in the municipal and national contexts of the time.

The present paper intends to show the discussions and implications around the public elementary school in Patos de Minas MG, in the period between 1913 and 1928, having Marcolino de Barros Elementary Sc hool as a reference. We intended to demonstrate the relations between this institution and the dissemination of the republican ideals in the city, considering that the creation of a more rationalized and standardized school answered the necessities of a social and political integration project, fundamental to consolidate the Republic. In this period, the discussions about people education were linked to the citizen formation, to the democratic participation, to the national unit, being the State responsible to promote these values. This situation demanded a national education project, to consolidate the citizenship feeling, important to take the country toward the progress and as a way to concretize the democracy. So, it was necessary to spread the elementar y instruction around the country, trying to reach a political collectivity and the society evolution in the economical, technological, scientific, social and moral fields. The elementary instruction started to be thought in its regenerator character and th e educational proposals were thought around of a integrated education, involving the physical, intellectual and moral education, to reach a cultural homogeneity and the civilization of people. Following this perspective, the introduction of the elementary schools, in the first years of Republic, were an important element to spread the republican values in the country, because these institutions were presented as the ideal places to consolidate the society modernization project and the republican citizen formation, as they helped to teach rules, values and behaviors rhythms related to the society intended. The introduction of this kind of institution in Patos de Minas, in 1917, was seen as a different element to the city, because the population received an organized elementary school, in the administrative, didactical, and pedagogical levels, besides to serve to the proposals of dissemination of the republican ideals in the city.

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This research is based on the premise that the contemporary capitalism has brought to surface questions which have directly impacted the men s life, mainly in respect of education and work. It considers that the reorganization in production means has provoked significant unfoldings especially in issues concerned with work and in the qualifications required to perform it. It is used the following categories for analysis: education, qualification, work and productive reorganization. In order to understand the concepts of work, qualification, abilities as well as the changes that are inherent to the inconstancy present in the working environment and in the market, which dictate the rules for life in society, we have used the bibliographical research. We analyze the college Pedagogical Project chosen for the empirical research, elaborated according to the curricular lines of direction established by the certified agencies. The questions that guided the analysis of the Pedagogical Project and the representation of former pupils of the course and the interviewed coordinators were: how do professors, former pupils and coordinator of this course see and perceive the impact of such issues in the working environment? To what extent do the syllabus enables an adequate professional practice? How do these segments understand their formation from prospect of a system of abilities? The analyses were made under the theoretic- conceptual matrices of this system, establishing comparisons between the analyzed document and the research done through a questionnaire. Finally, we ponder on what type of society we intend to live, which ideal standards we can expect from school, and of the market, for promoting social equality and autonomy, both of which responsible for generating man s emancipation. The main results of the research showed that both in the level of educational politics for courses of superior education, materialized by means of the National Curricular Lines of direction, and according to the proposals evidenced in the Pedagogical Project, there is inadequate use of the terms ability and qualification, thus narrowing the formation of the professionals of the course analyzed. On the other hand, we also verified that the concepts of qualification, ability and professional formation have many different connotations and, therefore, are generally used in an inadequate way in literature.

This study is a historical approach concerning the plural complexity of the reformed- Presbyterian and North American pedagogies in Brazil. It tries to apprehend the process of the Presbyterian Education in the American School of São Paulo and verify its influence for the intensification of the formal education in Brazil. The investigative curiosity refers to a chronological time between 1870 1900, period of installation of the North American missionary agencies in Brazil and of their first Presbyterian missionaries. They came to Brazil with the mission of educating from the reading of the Bible, but, did end up implementing the binomial of the evangelization by the education, that on its turn, was constituted inside that formal and informal educational process, in a complex phenomenon, detainer of crises and conflicts among its principal agents. Led to that sense, our study tried to appropriate and also give emphasis, to its pedagogic innovations said as "new and modern" that were rooted under a context of full social, politics, cultural and economical effervescence. With the sources and theoretical-methodological guidelines, both historical-educational and historical, the present text tried to analyze them by the optics of the New History, as well as by their crossing/dialogue, in the light of the paradigm of the complexity of Edgar Morin. The sources that served as support to the research express those different dimensions. We analyzed, therefore, both normative documents and those that refer to the school practices, as well as the circulating periodic press in such time. In that way, the historical context and its subjects are taken into consideration, starting from the pedagogic informal process of the Presbyterian Church and the formal process of the American School, however, without neglecting the multiple dimensions that insert the Protestant education in the social, political and cultural world. Such a study contemplated its whole complexity range. The emphasis given on its pedagogic innovations, printed in the documents of the institution as "new and modern" helped us to confirm the hypothesis that the missionaries pioneers of the Presbyterianism in Brazil, also followed the same vision of John Calvin's political / educational thought, in the intention of establishing objectives and plans of actions on behalf of the individual's integral education. In that way, this work unmasked the ideological presence of the liberalism in its daily practices both secular and religious and concluded with the results of the methodological process, that the foundation of the American School (formal) added to the efforts of the Presbyterian evangelization (informal), was then constituted in a complex phenomenon because its North American founders had a more pragmatic than theological orientation. The work was based on bibliographical and documental sources, having as theoretical referential and speakers the presuppositions and statements found in the Protestant literature and in researches already accomplished about the Protestant education in Brazil.

The main aim of this research was to make a study on the school called Escola Estadual João Pinheiro, located in Ituiutaba, state of Minas Gerais, covering the period between 1908 when it was created and 1988 as an attempt at understanding the room it set apart for children, above all during the military government (from 1964 to 1985), the pedagogical practices it developed in the elementary grades, and how these latter incorporated a certain social behavior determined by the educational dynamics at the time that is to say, its political and institutional determinants imposed by the military regime. Also, it tries to understand what the creation of elementary grades in a public school that time meant to the local society and the developments of the official curriculum. Theoretical references that support this research include authors such as Kuhlmann Júnior, Priore, and Tozoni-Reis. Their studies made possible to grasp if not the whole childhood dimension at least the extent to which our hypothesis points out the relationship between pedagogical practices and childhood , since this work discusses the centrality of the child as a being within the school aforementioned, which is taken as modernity institutional expression. The methodological procedure was the document analysis, which included book of records (of students who were promoted to advanced grades, of teachers who took office, of enrollment, and of meetings with headmasters, supervisors, advisors, and teachers), classroom attendance books, and inspector s visit records. Newspapers of the time and accounts given by former students, teachers and headmasters were used as well. All these documents became the relevant source to both unveiling the historical meaning of that school and understanding the process its schoolchildren experienced. Therefore, as the final result, it can be stated that child education in the elementary grades played an important role in the local social context and consequently helped to spread ideas, principles, and conceptions regarding the child as a being and the childhood itself.

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