Instrução, disciplina e civilização: uma perspectiva de leitura acerca das aulas públicas e particulares na Parahyba do Norte (1860-1889)

Abstract

The responsible experts for the ideas that allowed public and private organization for education in the North Parahyba Province, in the eighteenth century, understood that the instruction should be the path to reach civilization. It was essential knowing how to read, write and count, beyond disseminating the moralizing precepts that confirmed the resignation of the social body. Based on these presuppositions, this lecture aims to collaborate with the historical production of Paraiba, taking into account the instruction and the processes of discipline, while guiding elements of the formation of civilized subjects. Our bibliography corresponds to: newspapers of Parahyba Province collected at The Historical and Geographic of Paraiba Institute HGPI; General Instruction of Regulations from 1860,1884 and 1886, Law No. 178, 30th November, 1864, and the bureaucratic documents - requirements, laws, petitions - gathered in the Waldemar Bispo Duarte Historical Archive - FUNESC. The reference period for this study is from 1860, the decade where there is a major reform in Paraiba s public and private education until 1889, in the end of The Imperial Time. The school s culture conceptions were employed here as something beyond the walls delimiting the school s environment. This work has ties to the line of research - Teaching History and Historical Knowledge - Graduate Program in History of the Federal University of Paraiba, whose area of concentration is the Historical and Cultural History.