Brief history of Brazil: The influence of Ratio Studiorum In the writing of father Raphael M. Galanti

Abstract

To investigate the presence of the Ratio Studiorium, a set of norms created to regulate teaching in the Jesuit colleges, through the textbook Brief History of Brazil, taken in the study by source / object of research, which was used in teaching the discipline of History of Brazil in institutes of the Society of Jesus in Brazil is the purpose of this article. The work, dedicated to the children's school audience, by the Jesuit Father Raphael Maria Galanti, was published in 1913 by the publisher Duprat & Comp., of São Paulo. The research reflects how Father Galanti, also author of other didactic works on homeland history used in the Jesuit colleges, through the methodology presented in the form, uses Ratio Studiorium to follow the norms and procedures that standardize the Jesuit teaching and, for political reasons of the Order, exerts influence of this religious institution, even in non-Catholic means. The study also presents the didactic book as a privileged object of the school material culture to apprehend the pedagogy, the content and the current curriculum in the schools of the Company of Jesus installed in Brazil. The research dialogues with Viñao Frago (1998), Hernández Diaz (2002) and Dominique Julia (2001) on school culture and with Franca (1952) and Toledo (2000) on the Ratio Studiorum. The research concludes that the books of the Ignatius Father Galanti, used in the Jesuit schools in early twentieth century, based on the Ratio Studiorum, has similarities and specificities with other didactic scriptures that also circulated in the Brazilian educational system of that time.