O colégio estadual de Santa Rita-PB: da criação à implantação (1962- 1965)

Abstract

This end of course work, entitled The State College of Saint Rita-PB: from creation to implementation (1962-1965), aims to investigate how the process of creating and implementing this public secondary school in the city of Saint Rita-PB took place between 1962 and 1965. The first year of the time frame, 1962, refers to the official creation of the institution, through law project N.º 273/62, while the second year, 1965, focuses on the process of setting up the school in the municipality. With regard to methodological procedures, the research was conducted using a qualitative approach and documentary analysis. We dialogued with the studies of: Le Goff (1996), Romanelli (2002), Ginzburg (1989) and others, which provided theoretical support for this work. The documentary analysis refers to the investigation and problematization of documents that were found in the Waldemar Bispo Duarte historical archive, located in the Cultural Space Foundation (FUNESC) and in the archive of the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba (ALPB), located in the Epitácio Pessoa House. Furthermore, based on the bibliographical studies and documents analyzed, we note that secondary education was aimed at the middle and upper classes of the Brazilian and Paraíba population, according to the Organic Law of Secondary Education N.º 4,244 of April 9, 1942 and LDB N.º 4,024 of December 20, 1961. In conclusion, we can see from Law project N.º 273/62 and the newspaper A União that the State College of Saint Rita was important for the local population of the city, increasing enrollment, making it possible for young people from the lower classes to enter the second cycle (collegiate) of secondary education in 1965, with its installation.