Ciclos de conferências do Lyceu Parahybano: modernização pedagógica e atuação intelectual (1913-1921)

Abstract

The cycles of lectures undertaken at the Lyceu Parahybano are the result of actions initiated at the Popular University, still during the Castro Pinto government. Having established the importance of these actions, the Lyceu not only continued the activity, but also projected the perspective of pedagogical modernization announced by the institution. As a way of understanding this historical moment and its consequences for secondary education, we turned our attention to the subjects: student and teaching staff, responsible for organizing the conferences; the speakers, intellectuals from inside and outside non- school spaces, such as newspapers. With regard to the time frame, it is justified by the fact that 1913 was the year of the first conference to compose the cycles of lectures held at Lyceu Parahybano, and 1921 was the year of the last documentary traces found for these actions in the institution. The methodological theoretical framework used is, therefore, that of Cultural History, emphasizing the broadening of sources and themes in the area of history. The historiographical study, added to the research and reading of the documental corpus, composed of newspapers, magazines, Reports of the Presidents of the Brazilian States and Messages from the Governor of Paraíba to the Assembly, are the support of the research and end up establishing results regarding the understanding of the conferences as a pedagogical renewal practice at the Lyceum. Likewise, it was believed that the conferences proved to be a space for expanding cultural, pedagogical and scientific knowledge, in addition to being configured as a means of disseminating republican ideals, desires, signs and representations, which reverberated beyond the Lyceum. through circulation in periodicals, the publication of leaflets and the fact that some of these speeches were published in book format. In this sense, with this work, it is intended to contribute to the history of public secondary education in Paraíba, through the study of intellectuals and their possible interventions in society, especially in the context of secondary education.