A educação como irradiação do progresso: genealogias e sua expressão na Primeira República em Uberabinha, MG

Abstract

The following text is about the school education, in the period of the First Replubic, at the city of Uberabinha, MG. It is the result of the research that has began in the year of 2002, still over the name of Cientific Start. From July of 2002 to August of 2003 occurred the field research, where it was possible to establish a direct contact with the searched sources, that is, at this first moment it was made in the transcription and to select of periodicals the Tribune (1907-1914) and the Progress (1919-1925) and of acts of the City council of Uberabinha, MG. Later, the studied subject became project of research for the ingression in the Program of After Graduation in Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia. In this manner, it was broken of the proposal to evidence the entailed idea of progress to the illustration conception in the municipality in I appraise in the period of the First Republic considering, for this, the pertaining to school education. Thus, it was objectified to recoup, to analyze and to interpret the passage of the History of the Education in Uberabinha, of the end of century XIX up to 1930, using itself of the study of the official documentation (acts of the City council), of the news articles of the local press and the specialized bibliography, composing a picture that was interrelated with the educational process in Minas Gerais and Brazil. In addition, the present research aims at to contribute for the quarrel of the History of the local and regional Education between educators and researchers, in the attempt to promote the necessary interconnection between the regional and national study. Observing it promotion, the comparison and the analysis of the questions and found educational quarrels in the searched documentation was possible to identify and to describe the main ideas and relative representations to the education, manifest for the uberabinhense society of the studied time. To the end of biennium 2004 the 2006, after sufficient study for the critical deepening and how much to the subject in question, here it is that it emerges plus a tip to uncurl it of the history of the education in Uberlândia-MG (until the year of 1929, called of Uberabinha). This joint briefing of information it only intends to justify, partially, the construction of the following text, demonstrating the importance of the documentation on the period, as well as the main expressions gifts in the activities politics of Uberabinha-MG.