As primeiras cadeiras de francês do Império Brasileiro : primórdios de uma disciplina escolar (1831-1837)

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Joselma Duarte Santiago
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/9000
• topic: História da educação; Educação brasileira; Estudo de língua francesa; Ensino de língua francesa; Currículos; Língua francesa no Brasil (1831-1837); Disciplina escolar; Ensino de línguas; História da educação; Império; Língua francesa; School discipline; Language teaching; History of education; Empire; French language; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This dissertation presents an analysis of the process of creating the first French-language programs of the Brazilian Empire, between 1831 and 1837, in the provinces of Minas Gerais, Pernambuco and Sergipe. For this, we analyzes and compared the collected sources – educational legislation of the time, ministerial reports, speeches from the provincial presidents, newspapers referring to the selected period, public instruction regulations and inspection reports – as well as the historiography about the subject. Aiming to deepen the treatment of the aforementioned sources, we base in theoretical assumptions related to school discipline and culture, of Charvel (1990) and Julia (2001). The research allowed us to conclude that the creation of the first French-language programs in Brazilian Empire had similar and specific challenges in the three provinces that were analyzed. And that the teaching of public classes of French, centered in preparation exams, avoided the development of new methodologies and other skills of this language in this period, since that only the reading, the writing and the translation were taught. On the other hand, there were also positive aspects: first, the gratuity, which made the learning of French language and other preparatory disciplines more accessible, considering that both the College of Peter II and the best high schools of the studied period were too expensive. Second, the contribution of these classes to the development of the discipline, because, given the wish of student community of the time, it gained space in society, which increasingly saw it as a fundamental instrument to access higher education. Until it became a constant discipline in the Brazilian secondary school curriculum, instituted since 1837 with the foundation of College of Peter II, until at least the 1971 reform, when foreign languages were no longer part of the mandatory content and English language hegemony in schools was incontestable.