A educação Salesiana em Uberlândia: a gênese do Instituo Teresa Valsé Pantellini (1959 - 1971)

Abstract

This study had the objective of the historic the geneses of the Institute Teresa Valsé Pantellini in Uberlândia, with the purpose to construct an interpretative reading of its educational value, between the years 1959, the date of installation of the institute in the city, and the beginning of 1971, the moment when the school started to also admit in the school registration of pupils from masculine sex. According to this research and analyses the construction of its physical space, and architecture, the school life(pupils and components of the school community) and the contribution of the society for the accomplish of the salesiana , in the building where the Institution is located currently at Mato Grosso Avenue, 1625, in the Brazil District. This thesis is considered excellent in the academic society for serving as a contribution to the process of construction and survey of sources catalogued regarding the educational structures that had been part of the formation of the school roots of Uberlândia city, with this being able to trace a context of how the reality of the region had been thought and lived. Thus, the documentary sources of the school, verbal history had been privileged (interviews with former head teachers, former teachers , priests and egresses) the information supplied for the IBGE regarding the population growth between the years of 1900 an 1970, as well as regarding the average of the literacy between 1950 and 1970, consulting also the local press of the time. The Institute Teresa Valsé of the Salesiana´s Sister Congregation initiated in 1959, had the support of influential people of the society, who wished the development partner-educational through the methodology of education based on familiar and religious values, according to their predecessor Dom Bosco. The institution was developed with the aid of different members of the local community, who participated in almost all the difficulties of the Sisters. This also contributed for the development of the district, facts that demonstrate that, even making use of an education device marked by behaviors discipline at the time given for the Sisters, who obtained flexible methods and to adjust them in its institutional environment, obtaining the desires of the society and forming a significant school for the city.