CRIAÇÃO E EXPANSÃO DO ENSINO PRIMÁRIO PÚBLICO EM TRÊS LAGOAS: SUL DE MATO GROSSO (1920-1970)

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the History, Policies and Education Research Line of the Master Course in Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its objective is to study the expansion of public primary education in the city of Três Lagoas, South of Mato Grosso in the period from 1920 to 1970. The general objective is to analyze the historical movement that provided the material conditions for the consolidation of public primary education in Três Lagoas. It also discusses the influence of national policies of primary education on state policies and what are the historical, social and political determinations for the expansion of primary schools in the city of Três Lagoas. In order to carry out the research, the methodology used was analyzing documents such as legislation on primary education at the national and regional levels, such as Decrees published in the Official Gazette of Mato Grosso (1920- 1970) on the creation of schools in the municipality, Municipal Legislation city of Três Lagoas regarding the creation of schools, books on primary education in Mato Grosso and Annual Report of the Afonso Pena School. The theoretical contribution used corresponds to the materialist-historical-dialectic for understanding the context of society in the final period of the First Republic until the beginning of the military dictatorship. When analyzing some political and legal milestones in the history of education, it is evident that it should not be reduced by reduccionismos that particularize it without inserting in the context of the totality mediated by the relations of production, and exploited class and explorers. As a result, the research verified that the industrial expansion of the country provoked the need to create new schools, because at that historical moment it was necessary to qualify the working class, however, in the case of the city of Três Lagoas, it turns out that the installation of institutions school was motivated by the urbanization process, which followed the development of the economic activities of the region that was characterized by livestock, but also by the commerce, besides the arrival of the Northwest Railroad that changed the social and economic profile of the city.