Da suntuosidade à funcionalidade: Grupo escolar Barão de Mipibu (1909-1971)

Abstract

This paper has as research object the scholar institution, Barão de Mipibu School Group, which is located in the city of São José de Mipibu, at the drylands region in Rio Grande do Norte. It has as goal to understand the changes occurred in the imaginary towards the school groups during the existence of this teaching level, through the Barão School Group of Mipibu. The time frame comprehends the institution in the period from 1909 to 1971, that is, by means of the creational decree nº 5.692/71, that extinguished the school groups in Brazil, replacing them with the first grade teaching schools. The choose for this paper occurred as result of the theme’s importance in the fields of national and local Education History, as well as the relevance of the studied institution, which has collaborated with norterio-grandense education since the imperial period, considering that the building’s foundation dates from 1880. The research happened through two biases, namely: bibliographical and documentary. The first was based on historiographic studies on education and Brazil in the twentieth century.. The documental research, was effected through legislative documents about the national and local education, pedagogical and administrative natures documents of Barão de Mipibu School Group, as well as though photographies of the institutions, enterviews and texts of memorialist origins. From the selected sources, were chosen to analyze three habitual school elements: the school’s space, the festive practices and the school’s supervisory entities. The thesis finds itself based in the studies of Cultural History and Education, having as theoretical base the History of Imaginary (LE GOFF, 1994;2004) and School Practices (JULIA, 2001). At the research’s end it was possible to comprehend that the changes occurred in the imaginary about the brazilian school groups are characterized by the passage of the school’s image as something monumental and imposing for a functional school. This reverberated in Barão de Mipibu School Group, making it undergo modifications, through the political and educational practices that were developed in the institution.