Colégio Nossa Senhora de Lourdes: culturas escolares em Cajazeiras-PB (1949- 1983)

Abstract

This work had as goal to understand, even though partially, the school cultures that configured the Colégio Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, in the city of Cajazeiras, state of Paraíba and that in it they were constituted in the period of 1949 to 1983. It is based on the assumptions of Magalhães (1988), Chervel (1990), Faria Filho et al (2004), Julia (2001), among others, also as documents localized, mainly, in the Arquivo Escolar and the Arquivo da Tesouraria do Colégio, highlighted, as the manuscript História da Fundação e Diário do Colégio Nossa Senhora de Lourdes (1928-1930), Internal Regiments, Registration Form, Information to the parents, Book of employees. Methodologically, it is a research within the History of the Education, specifically, the history of the educational institutions with confessional character. To reach the proposed goal, the analysis started from the Paradigma Indiciário de Ginzburg (1989), since I treated the sources through the analysis of indications. I also worked with oral sources, through interviews made with ex-students, ex-teachers and ex-employee of the School. The research evidenced that the Nuns of the Santa Doroteia Congregation came to Cajazeiras in 1928, with the mission to assume the so called Escola Normal Padre Rolim and to build the Colégio Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, that only started to be called by this name in 1949. That the School represented, in the initial period of its history, the main act of investment of the Ação Católica da Diocese de Cajazeiras, in the person of Dom Moises Coelho, for having concretized the project of the female education, idealized, previously, by Padre Rolim. That the school cultures wasn‘t always carriers of the indicative of the evangelizing mission of the Santa Doroteia Congregation. Summarizing, it is possible to say that the School contributed, significantly, to the schooling of girls and boys that lived in the city of Cajazeiras and from near cities, in an environment that was understood to be of education, catholic religion and order.