Um imposto para a instrução pública: o alvitre de A Tribuna (1915) e a "municipalização" do ensino em Santos

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Rosimeri Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10547
• topic: Imprensa e intelectuais; A Tribuna (Jornal); Escolas municipais -- Santos, SP; Educacao -- Santos, SP -- Historia; Education; Journal; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::HISTORIA DA EDUCACAO

This study investigates the discussion about public education in A Tribuna, the major newspaper of the city of Santos, between 1914 and 1917. More specifically, this discussion which involved the city´s cultured men, was about the 1915 ideas that proposed the creation of a school tax which would promote the widening of rural and urban education, as well as the creation of a Normal School and a highschool in Santos. The choice of a newspaper as an object of study is justified by the fact that the press is understood as a tool that exercises influence upon opinion and social life. In the end of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century, the press became a privileged field for elaboration, articulation and expression of the élite way of thinking. The press was understood not only as a tool of articulation and discussion of élite´s ideas and interests, but mainly, as a vehicle for people´s cultural and moral constitution. One of the aims of this study is to know the newspaper and its collaborators´ opinion about the public education and to identify the most important issues to the literate élite of Santos during the First Republic, the names indicated to answer the proposal and what they represented, their opinions about the proposal and about the municipality´s public education, the priorities indicated and what they aspired to, concerning education in the city of Santos. We verified that the newspaper was a vehicle of republican ideas, according to which, it was required to broaden the education network, for the progress of nation, in order to educate the citizen for a democratic society. As the city faced labor strikes and with a heterogeneous and increasing population, A Tribuna approved the discourse of the moralizing strength of technical education. Finally, it was noted that around the educational issue, emerged conflicts between the power in the state and city levels, as well as among the political groups in the city of Santos and which had divergent evaluations about the proposal