"Colégio São José: gênese e funcionamento da escola dos estigmatinos em Ituiutaba - Mg (1940-1971)

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation research is the history of the São José College, the first confessional educational institution focused on the formation of the male youth of the city of Ituiutaba (Minas Gerais), in the period between 1940 - the date of its origin, and 1971 - when the school declines. In preparing this work, we pursuit understanding the process of multiplication of religious congregations in mission around the world from the Ultramontane movement, which was a reaction of the Catholic Church to changes caused by Liberalism. We also made brief reflections about the school education introduced by Catholicism in Brazil, from the arrival of the Portuguese and Jesuits, through investigation of the principles of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata until the genesis of the São José College in the educational context of the town, establishing connections with education in Minas Gerais and Brazil. The study of the trajectory that allows us to understand the practices and culture developed in the academic area, through the approach of their stakeholders (alumni, former teachers and former managers), also analyzing the infrastructure provided for the development of the educational activities and investigating the uses of knowledge by the Stigmatines, who arrived in Brazil in 1910 and twenty-five years later, in 1935, the city of Ituiutaba/ MG which developed many social and educational activities reaching social and political prestige. For over forty years the São José College attended part of the privileged youth of the city and other regions of the country, since its maintenance was mainly of monthly contributions from the families of students to the college. Besides the bibliographical study, throughout the investigation the answers for the evoked questions have arisen from different sources (newspapers, minutes, iconography, etc...), so that we had to look on them in the basement of the old school (which closed in 1985), and also in raising private files of witnesses who lived then. Through oral history interviews were collected to understand some possible ways to express the educational policy, school culture and pedagogical proposals that support the education offered by the São José College for more than four decades.