Revista Pedagogium: a associação de professores em ação pelo projeto educativo da Escola Nova no RN (1920-1932)

Abstract

This research has a concern to contribute to the history of education in the Rio Grande do Norte state and analyzes the pedagogical ideas diffused by Revista Pedagogium from the year 1920 to 1932, these ideas, come from the Escola Nova movement and its relations in the construction of the Rio Grande do Norte Teachers Association actions. The study also emphasizes the modeling character of the pedagogical press in question, whose contents, in the form of conferences, discussions, speeches, lessons and excerpts from other publications to instrumentalize the Potiguar teaching in the new way of teaching for life. There is an articulated and intentional approach between the leaders of the association with the public power, in this sense, the pedagogical and conceptual directions were, at least time frame of research, aligned with the politicians thought that held government positions in this period. The main interlocutors and mediators of the entity actions and the government were the teachers Nestor dos Santos Lima, Amphilóquio Câmara and José Augusto Bezerra de Medeiros, intellectual, political and educational references, at local, regional and national livels. Consequently, we use the pedagogical magazine as a source and object of the research. Besides other printed materials, such as the “A República” newspaper, articles and books that treat of the theme. For the analysis, we resort to Chartier's concepts of representation and practices (1990); configurations of Elias (2001); strategy and writing of Certeau (1994). It concluded that all the undertaken moviment had as reference, the elements of the new school, already widely practiced in the state of São Paulo, considered the leader, in the matter of educational advances; It is also noted that the discussions in congresses, national conferences, pedagogical weeks, creation of associations, were places of foster the ideas of modern and renewing education, to arouse the interest of teachers to put this in practice this new model of education. In this sense, our research verifies the interlocutions between studies, congresses, lectures, dialogues and questions organized in the axes of São Paulo and other states with the organization north of Rio Grandense. In this segment, Rio Grande do Norte, since the creation of APRN, in 1920, sought to send representation for educational events, therefore, when the first National Conference on Education was installed in 1927, organized by the Brazilian Education Association - ABE , with the participation of Professor Nestor dos Santos Lima and José Augusto Bezerra de Medeiros. In view of this, our study retrieves the history and participation of these potiguares, actors who stood out and sought innovation in the educational system and in organizations as a whole. The points listed here and the knowledge of analyzed works may give rise to further research, aiming to get to know those who did the educators and schools of yesterday to understand the subjects of today's education, both individually and collectively.