Life of Teacher: ideas and adventures of Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro during the First Republic

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Elaine Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2016v8n15p29

During the last years of the Brazilian Empire and during the First Republic,the Brazilian education system was established as part of the modernization project. Right from the start there was evidence of the growing engagement of women employed as teachers. The Bahian teacher Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro was one of those teachers. Part of a “lower middle class” that was formed in Rio de Janeiro, the teacher had an extremely rich life, which she recorded in autobiographical writings, along with testimonies and ideas about politics and education. This article presents the life of Leolinda as a teacher, the economic challenges that she faced and her professional practice and ideas, higly influenced by the positivist philosophy. The trajectory of Leolinda enables an examination of life in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro between 1890 and 1930, mainly by mixing the modernizing project and attempt to introduce some order in the society by the state,it also includes the indigenous debate and claims of women who gave birth to the Brazilian feminist movement.