Ginásio estadual de Sapé: uma nova oportunidade educacional para os jovens de Sapé e região (1956-1968)

Abstract

The present work, enrolled in the field of studies about school institutions, deals with the history of the Ginásio Estadual de Sapé, currently named as Escola Cidadã Integral Monsenhor Odilon Alves Pedrosa. The objective of this research was to understand how the process of creation and the operation of the Ginásio de Sapé happened until it became school (1956-1968). The temporal cut-off is justified by the following: 1956 because it refers to the year in which Governor Flávio Ribeiro Coutinho signed Law No. 1629 of december 1956 establishing the Ginásio Estadual de Sapé, and the year 1968, when director of the institution studied sends a letter to the secretary of education of Paraíba, requesting the official authorization for the operation of the Scientific course in the post-primary school. The historical sources used to construct this research were: the newspapers A União e O Norte, made available in the collection of the Acervo Histórico Waldemar Bispo Duarte of the Fundação Espaço Cultural José Lins do Rêgo (FUNESC) and the Instituito Histórico e Geográfico Paraibano (IHGP); the law of creation of the Ginásio de Sapé, available in the file of the Legislative Assembly of João Pessoa; old documents arranged in the studied institution and memorial books. Regarding the authors who supported this work, it was pertinent the studies of Abreu (2005); Saviani (2005); Magalhães (2004); Sanfelice (2009); Nosella and Buffa (2006). The Ginásio de Sapé was born during a period of ascension of the city of Sapé and in a period of expansion of Paraibano Public Secondary Education. Nevertheless, its process of creation and operation had a strong influence of a political family that had power over the municipality and that found in the creation of the State Gymnasium a means of being promoted, including through the press in the newspaper A União.