A instrução em Santarém de 1935 a 1956: concepções veiculadas no jornal católico O Mariano

Abstract

The study aimed to identify how teaching was assimilated in Santarém, in the west of Pará, what conceptions there was in the middle of the last century, from the information published in the newspaper O Mariano, source of the research, Catholic vehicle of Santarém, published in the period from 1935 to 1956, with a 4-page structure - six in special editions - with relevance of extrapolating the limits of a religious informational. He became the official communication body of the Prelature ofSantarém, Pará, held by the Marian of the Young’s Congregation, a lay movement of the local church. He transposed the episcopal government of three bishops and was further longed that other existing newspapers or that emerged at that time. In the 297 editions, almost 1,200 pages printed, information on school instruction of the time, with practices linked to religious orientation. Bibliographic and documentary research was followed by analyzes by reference to dialectical historical materialism and critical historical pedagogy by the understanding that, even distant geographically of global financial centers, the Amazon is paradoxically at the center of territories, riches, and the workforce that engenders the capitalist mode of production. Disputes that are also present in the institutions of the State and the Church, for example, among others that constitute the organization of society. Conceptions and educational do not occur isolated from the broader context in which the region is inserted. This work exposes the study on the conceptions presented in the Catholic Journal about school instruction and the relations that are established around this theme in the context of the time, identifying the State-church relationship in public education, the reflexes of the policy of the New State and Dogmatic guidelines in school education, basis for social thinking of the time.