A presença missionária norte-americana no Educandário Americano Batista

Abstract

This study deal with the process of implantation and consolidation of Educandário Americano Batista (EAB), between 1952 and 1972, Aracaju-SE. It intend to elucidate aspects of school administration and culture developed during the period of North American Baptist missionaries as principal of the institution. The analysis of the background biographics outline and missionary performance of Linnie Winona Treadwell (1952-1955); Maye Bell Taylor (1955-1959; 1960-1963); Freda Lee Trott (1959; 1964; 1966), and Clara Lynn Williams (1966-1972) made possible to understand the circulation and appropriation o the Baptist pedagogical devices. Some elements of the school culture such as festivities, rewards, graduation. Curriculum, teaching methodology, examination, the relationship between teachers and students, Teachers and Parents Associaton, discipline, punishment, were searched. The contribution of Dominique Julia, Roger Chartier, Viñao Frago, Pierre Bourdieu, Norbert Elias, Rosa Fátima de Souza e Ester Fraga Villas-Bôas Carvalho do Nascimento made it possible to arrive the theorical research. The sources were collected in public and private files: institutional documents such as records of proceedings, reports, registration books, etc, testemonies from former studentes, former teachers, former principal and former workers; printing-press and photos. The results os this investigation allow significant approach to pedagogical practices developed in EAB, from 1952 and 1972, that made difference during many generations of children and yougsters in Aracaju.