História do Grupo Escolar Osório de Morais: sujeitos e práticas escolares (1932-1971)

Abstract

This dissertation sought to study individuals and practices of the School Group Osório de Morais, an institution located in the municipality of Coromandel, in the State of Minas Gerais. It had as temporal cut the period from 1932, year of its creation and installation, until 1971, year in which the Law 5.692/71 reformulates the primary school, occasioning a change in the denomination of the school, which is designated State School Osório de Morais. To carry out this narrative, we used many theoretical and methodological assumptions of the history of these institutions to take a look from the cultural history and talk about the individuals and their practices. To dialog within the social and school space, in order to build an analytical panorama of the individuals and the practices, we used documental sources of the existent school archives such as enrollment books, pedagogical meeting minutes, civic celebrations book, teachers’ history book, director’s diaries. In addition, we looked int newspapers, reports, regiments and decrees of other archives too. The School Group, an educational model that served as a reference to the republican project, ended by experiencing changes in its organization and functioning insofar the national politics faced the particularities of each State. The history of the School Group Osorio de Morais, by its turn, presented many singularities, once individuals and practices that existed there left behind signs, which were not specific to the history of the school but to the history of Coromandel too. This city, shown as a promising municipality due to its subsoil assets, was aligned with the republican reform ideology at the beginning of the XX century, in such a way that it is possible to say that the history of Coromandel's School Group was associated with the general history of all national school groups. So, we believe that this narrative can contribute to the researches in the field of history of the school institutions, especially of the groups, if considering their insertion in the local, regional and national dimensions. Key-words: School Group Osório de Morais; School Practices and Individuals; School Culture