As festividades do Grupo Escolar Felippe Camarão (1912-1939)

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the school parties developed by the Felipe Camarão School Group in the municipality of Ceará-Mirim - RN, in the period from 1912, the year of the establishment of the educational establishment to the year 1939, on which the school received another name. During this period, the municipality and state education were in a process of modernization, with the School Group as a prominent institution. The hypothesis presented is that school festivities were configured as strategies developed by the institution on the scene to instill in society a civic culture, as part of its school culture. This action was part of the state's strategy, which regulated the parties to be held by imbuing them with a civic and patriotic character. For the preparation of this text, the School Legislation, the Messages of Presidents of State, photographs, the Books of Entry and Exit of Papers and the Books of Terms of Visit and Examination and the Party Programs of the referred School Group were problematized. These are documents that contributed to experiencing the “flavor of the festive archive” based on the understanding woven by Arlette Farge (2017) and understanding the intentions of school festivities. Methodologically, I carry out the analysis of the sources through the assumption of a document proposed by Jacques Le Goff (1990), which consists of perceiving in the documents their intentions. In the meantime, I appropriate the concepts of tactics and strategy advocated by Michel de Certeau (2008), of school culture outlined by Viñao Frago (1995), of discipline according to the writings of Michel Foucault (2014) and of school legislation from Luciano Faria Filho (1998). Finally, when entering the domains of Clio, along the trails of Cultural History, it was possible to problematize the parades and ceremonies of the Nature Festivals, September 7th, the Flag and Closing Festivals, in addition to sporadic parties such as the different centenaries held. It was concluded that the parties were strategies used to consolidate a civic school culture.