Da cidade ao campo: transformações na identidade da Escola Frederico Lundgren, Rio Tinto-PB

Abstract

This article, a end-of-course work, results from research of the Frederico Lundgren School, located at Rua da Aurora, urban area of the municipality of Rio Tinto - PB. This school was founded in the 1920s, initially called Herman Lundgren, to qualify workforce to Rio Tinto Tissues Company – CTRT. So the objective of the research was understand the transformations in the school identity of this institution at the same time as the changes in the world of work and in the education systems. As for the methodology, we carried out some steps: bibliographic research, data collection and historical information that allowed us to make a map that represents the spatial organization of Rio Tinto in the context of the first decades. We also dialogued with two geography teachers from the Frederico Lundgren School, based on thematic axes. At the end of the research, we conclude that, in view of the expansion of integral education, the Frederico Lundgren 3 school represents the only regular urban school available to working-class students from the nearby rural area, since the other regular schools are in more distant indigenous territories. We also conclude that the school no longer has this feature of training workforce for the factory (even because the factory is deactivated) and it is no longer a symbol of the modern. Today it houses mostly rural students, although they do not recognize themselves with this identity: a country school in the city.