A Escola Modelo Benedito Leite no contexto de produção da educação moderna em São Luís (1900-1920)

Abstract

It is objective of this research, analyze aspects of school culture School Model Benedito Leite in Sao Luis-Ma, between 1900 and 1920, considering the relationship of this school to the context of production of modern education in Sao Luis-Ma, during the process of implementation of the Brazilian Republic, to address the problem: to what extent the Model School Benedito Leite (1900-1920) included the concept of education that had intensified its implementation by republican ideals established in Brazil? I assume that this school, this time frame, considering its characteristics, materialized a school culture validated by the institution of scientific and patriotic education, related to the idea of progress and new morality, structured on attributes such as control, hierarchy and selectivity characteristics modern education representation established in Brazil during the first years of the Republic. The time frame is justified because it is 1900 the year of initial operation of the Model School Benedito Leite, 1920 and the beginning of the second phase of the institutionalization of school groups in Maranhao. We situate this research in the dimension of Cultural History, Roger Chartier; in the field of History of Education; in the subject field of school culture in Viñao Frago; and a qualitative approach, as we seek to achieve an interrelation with the macro, as we approach our object of study in relation to larger contexts, such as the political, educational and economic. As for the establishment of procedures of empirical data, we use the bibliographic and documentary research. In literature, we take as main reference book The teacher and the school of Antonio Barbosa godois (1910). As for the documentary, we examine annual reports and correspondence from the direction of the School Model Benedito Leite to the governors of the state of Maranhao; government posts of the State Legislature to Congress; and newspapers of the time. As a result, we understand that the School Model Benedito Leite, considering the limits between 1900 and 1920, was the public institution of primary education held in São Luis-MA, the institutionalization of a school culture formed by properties such as sterilization, rigor, hierarchy, control and selectivity, representative characteristics of modern education model established in Brazil during the republican regime establishment process.