O Ensino de Didática, na década de trinta, no sul de Mato Grosso: Ordem e Controle?

Abstract

This dissertation presents a reconstruction of the history of the teaching of Didactics in the south of Mato Grosso during the 1930s; the point of departure adopted was the principle that Didactics maintains a deeply rooted feature: order and control. Our research was based on the following sources: documents of the 1920s and 1930s. books and notebooks of former students, registers of the Teacher Training Schools existing in Campo Grande and interviewed ex-professores and students of Dom Bosco and Joaquim Murtinho Teacher Training Schools. The analysis of the different sources indicate that the structuring of the teachers' training courses in Mato Grosso received a strong influence from the state of San Paulo dating from the start of the XX century due to the change in the economic axis of the Corumba export trade in favor of Campo Grande - based cattle breeding. This influence persisted in the 1930s, though the uses of school textbooks and Cuiaban theacher - trained professors who permitted the penetration of "escolanovista" ideals. However, it was found tha pedagogical practice as well as the contents of The Didactis' course of the Teacher Training School in Campo Grande also showed trances of tradicional schooling. The conclusion arrives at is that order and control can be understood equally as a manifestation of the positivist and liberal spririt of times as well as a landmark of Didactics.