Aperfeiçoamento e qualificação do professorado primário (1937-1945): os cursos de formações complementares

Abstract

This monograph is the result of concerns raised during the course of the research project entitled: "Schooling for morality, civility and nationalism: school groups and rural schools room to spread ideals estadonovistas (1937-1945)" funded, in part, by National Research Council - CNPq / UFPB. The research was conducted at the Historical Archive Waldemar Bishop Duarte, linked to the Cultural Foundation - FUNESC, specifically referring to the news published in The Union Newspaper The main objective of this study, discuss about the improvement of the teaching qualification and primary Paraíba, during New State period, but also observing as its primary education was structured, thought out and articulated, both nationally and locally. We performed the analysis on our research object, trying to maintain a dialogue with the sources collected critical reading of the historical production for the period under study here. The consideration was based on the theory advocated by Hobsbawm (1998), who points us about "continuity and change" that occur throughout the historical period, either at the local and / or national and Thompson (2001), which helps us with his theoretical contributions concerning the "political and cultural peculiarities." We seek to understand "continuity and change" with respect to such education and training of teachers who attended, particularly to children, and try to understand the "political and cultural peculiarities" that Paraíba presented during the study period.