Ensino público no interior de Minas Gerais: o grupoEscolar Ituiutaba ( 1958-1968)

Abstract

This research is associated with a broader project of public schooling in the region of ItuiutabaMG (1940-1960), promoted by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and supported by the Federal University of Uberlândia. With the theme Public Education in the Interior of Minas Gerais: The Ituiutaba School Group (1958-1968). Thus, as a guiding question: To what extent did the creation and organization of the Ituiutaba School Group contribute to minimizing the illiteracy of the local population in the period 1958-1968? The general objective is: To analyze the genesis of the Ituiutaba School Group in order to understand its implementation in the city and its educational impact. The investigation unfolded according to procedures of historical-dialectical materialism in order to analyze and interpret the political and socioeconomic context in which the school group emerged, in view of the expansion of public schools. The research sources comprise: census-statistical data, journalistic articles, official school documents, decrees and school inauguration law, among others. It was found that the State supported the school group financially, however, however, in an insufficient and precarious way. Since, according to records in school minutes, the teachers collected subsidies to buy furniture, in addition to receiving funding from the União da Mocidade Espírita Ituiutabana. Given the above, it is clear the absence of public power in public schooling in the municipality. In this way, it is understood that the expansion of the Ituiutaba School Group occurred precariously, which demonstrates the existing contradiction, since the municipality was in an ascending economic development, however, the high illiteracy rate persisted. Grupo Escolar Ituiutaba contributed to offer education to more people.