História e memória das professoras no Grupo Escolar Brasil: Uberaba 1960 -1971

Abstract

This study is a qualitative research in education, which aimed to investigate the teachers’ practices in Grupo Escolar Brasil (Brazil Scholar Group), in Uberaba, from 1960 to 1971. The guiding questions were: what were the practices and methods developed in the classroom in Grupo Escolar Brasil? How were these practices and methods developed? What were the role and place of the Primary Education Program of Minas Gerais State to be part of the Scholar Groups of Minas Gerais in the teachers’ syllabi? The methodology chosen was the Thematic Oral History, because it made possible to recover the teachers’ experiences in the classroom in the manner they taught Native Language, Moral, Civility and Hygiene, and also the ways they assessed the students. Therefore, we interviewed five participants of the group: two teachers who worked with the third grade, and one with the fourth grade, who later became a principal in the same group; we also interviewed two former students, whose primary education was all taken in Grupo Escolar Brasil. The documentary references used in this study served to complement the narratives, once the documents emerged from the narratives. During the study we understood that the Grupo Escolar Brasil was respected in Uberaba’s society, because it was the very first scholar group in the city, being active for 107 years now. We discovered, through the narratives, that the teachers’ syllabi were made guided by the group’s principal and the Primary Elemental Education Program. Throughout the research, we discovered a guide made by the teacher Hermantina Riccioppo for the areas of Geography and Natural Sciences, which also brought themes related to civility, moral and hygiene.