Morais, Maria Arisnete Câmara deGomes, Edna Maria Rangel de Sá2014-12-172010-03-122014-12-172009-11-16GOMES, Edna Maria Rangel de Sá. Adelle de Oliveira: trajetória de vida e prática Pedagógica (1900-1940). 2009. 209 f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2009.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/14216This work analyses pedagogical practices of Adelle Sobral de Oliveira, from 1900 to 1940, in order to notice how her performance as educator and administrator took place in Externato Angelo Varela in the Rio Grande do Norte city of Ceará-Mirim within a time in which the public teaching started to be considered modern in the State. Adelle was a self learner who developed an important role as a mentality mentor of a generation in the region. As the research corpus we have taken the five Reading Books written by Felisberto de Carvalho used by Adelle in her Externato, interviews with her ex-students and researches in the newspapers of her time, in the Public Archives and in the Historical and Geographic Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, and also in the governors messages, Education Department documents such as laws, and government decrees and acts. It was also taken as a research font the Publich Archives of Ceará-Mirim. The aim of this PhD thesis is understand the primary instruction spreading and modernization in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte, which began with her teaching pedagogical practices. The research results show Adele Oliveira used practical and experimental modern methodological teaching methods in the subjects she taught. Due to this, in her scholar routine, she avoided physical punishment and mechanical teaching and learning strategiesapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoAdelle de Oliveirahistória da educação no RNpráticas pedagógicasAdelle de Oliveiraeducaton history of Rio Grande do Nortepedagogical practicesdoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO