A institucionalização do Grupo Escolar Guilherme Campos (1953- 1965) : contribuição à história da educação primária em Campo do Brito/Sergipe

Abstract

The present paper has as object of study the Guilherme Campos School Group (GEGC), the first public primary instruction education building located in the city of Campo do Brito in Sergipe state, for the purpose of analyzing the institutionalization process of GEGC between the years 1953-1971, in addition to understanding the extent to which the perspectives of rural education were present in its practices, highlighting the investigation of teachers and students who composed GEGC in the proposed time frame. The temporal delimitation consists, first in the inauguration of the group (1953) until it becomes primary school (1971). The choice to follow the paths of the History of Education was due to the contact with the Institutional Scholarship Program of Scientific Initiation (PIBIC) for two years and the research on primary education on Agreste region of Sergipe. In the course of the research, a literature review was made about the History of Education and themes that permeates this area of investigation: Rosa Fatima de Souza (1998; 2008; 2009; 2019), Cyntia Greive Veiga (2007) Diana Vidal and Luciano Faria Filho (2000), Jorge Nagle (1974), Dominique Julia (2001) and Margarida Felgueiras (2010), Michael Pollak (1989) and memory concepts with Pierre Nora (1993), in addition to research in physical and digital collections, where sources were found such as letters from teachers, minutes book of promotions, photographs and list of schools, as well as oral sources collected through interviews. In view of the various conceptions that permeate primary education, writing about the path taken by teachers and students within that institution and aligning educational theories and their configurations, is indeed instigator and a challenge to be accomplished. It is concluded, therefore, that the process of institutionalization of the GEGC was, in fact, an advance in the educational precepts at the time, it went through the conceptions of ruralization of teaching, even located in the country town of the state, it was marked by practices, characters and theories that coupled to the pertinent teaching to urban groups. GEGC, fulfilled its role in the functionality of public instruction in the city of Campo do Brito in Sergipe state.