Educating for the "patriotism"

History teaching and Primary Education of Santa Catarina in the decades of 1910 - 1930

Abstract

The aim  of  this  article  is  to  discuss  the selection   of   historial   knowledge   for   the Primary Education  of  Santa  Catarina,  by  the  first  decades  of the   twentieth   century, highlighting   their   uses   and assignments  with  purpose  for  the  conformation  of patriotic  subjects. The  main  idea  is  to  debate  about the   selection   and   organization   of   this   knowledge within the  School Groups, considered  symbols  of the Republic educational project and the Isolated Schools, known as the delay representatives. For the following discussion  were  selected  educational  programs  and reports from the first decades of the twentieth century.  They will be analyzed as documents/monuments and perceived  as  instruments  of  power,  whose  speeches are not directly related to the  practices they hold, but that   still   inform representations   of   practices   with reasons,  codes,  specific  purposes  and  recipients  that  led  to  read  and  interpret  the  marks  and  the  social interests of a particular time.

Keywords: History   teaching, primary education, education programs.