Memórias da Educadora Olivina Olivia Carneiro da Cunha: práticas educativas e envolvimento político e social na Paraíba (1886-1977)

Abstract

This Master thesis investigated and analyzed, historically, the trajectory of the educator Olivina Olívia Carneiro da Cunha, focusing, basically, her educational practices in the politician, cultural and social scenario paraibano. The time frame in the present study comprehends the years of 1886-1977, that is, it enters the year of birth and death of the educator. The theoretician-methodological reference was constructed endorsed in the approach of New Cultural History, with emphasis in the territory of the memories and Verbal History through a historic-biographical perspective. Using as source the press and verbal narratives of her familiar, friends and historians paraibanos, and her former-pupils, who had presented the remaining and the histories around the familiar origin, of her educational formation, and its professional legacy collaborating in the assembly of the biographical puzzle of this teacher. The analysis and the interpretation of the collected documentary sources allowed us to know her contributions in the literary field, her fights around the feminist cause, as well as, her performance to beyond to school walls, in the politics, music, and the beneficent movements. Finally, we enter in analyzes around her practical and educative conceptions that as our interpretation of available documents if had according to constituted in practical conservatives at some moments and other spreader of new pedagogical methods, based in the estimated of the Active School, coherent with procedural of modernizations implemented in the paraibana society. Thus, conscientious of the transience to the conclusion of this work, due the peculiarities of the biographical studies, we close a stage for the memory of the teacher Olivina Olívia Carneiro da Cunha, stage where we pull wires of the woman existence of great intellectual inquietude and outstanding presence in the education of her time. We believe, therefore, that our research will serve of compassing, indicating the way for new research, removing of the bilge of history, the memories of other educators who had been part of the historiography of the paraibana education.