Grupo escolar professora Alice Paes: trajetória dos egressos e currículo escolar (Uberlândia- Minas Gerais 1965-1971)

Abstract

This study is an investigation related to the search of social reason and objective of the Elementary School Professora Alice Paes, in Uberlândia- Minas Gerais, from 1965 to1971. Limiting the study to the initial years was due to its creation by the Decree 8176 from February 22, 1965, and ended in 1971, when the Elementary School, with that conception, was extinguished. The specific objectives of the study were: to indentify the motivation for building an elementary school in a peri-urban of the city; to delineate the social-economic profile of the public served by the school at that time; to analyze the teaching practices at the school. The sources analyzed were inserted in several portfolios, with images portraying the opening ceremony of the Elementary School Professora Alice Paes and the activities done by the students, donated notebooks, the Daily Attendance Book Record, and the Monthly Activities Summary of 1971, the Manual of the Elementary School Teacher, Cumulative School Record (documents collected at the referred school). The social reason for the Elementary School Professora Alice Paes was identified by analyzing the social-economic origin of the alumni and the schooling and Professional trajectory of each one of them using a structured interview. All subjects interviewed were from the popular layer, with no economic capital. One group of those interviewed found reason for that school, since it provided the necessary means for female students to have the aspired social ascension, by embodying the cultural capital transmitted by the family nucleus and by the educational institution, it was possible to mobilize this capital, acquiring the social capital and possessing a new habitus, breaking up with the initial social economic origin. In contrast, for another alumni group, the school had no reason, for it did not promote the acquisition of these capitals, resulting in that they remained in the original social group. The social objective of the Elementary School Professora Alice Paes, was studied by analyzing the curriculum of the school, where the primary objective of this institution was to form the civil subject, willing and able to serve the religion, the country and the work. However, the school was not able to transmit the same idea of civility, respect, and discipline to all students, since each subject represented a single identity; thus, for each student there should be a type of teaching to be applied in order to organize the classes in homogeneous parameters, which is the conclusion of this study.