School culture of Escola-Classe 107 Sul In Brasilia (1961-1970)

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the school culture of Escola-Classe 107 Sul in Brasília, between the years 1961 and 1970, taking as sources news published in the daily newspaper Correio Braziliense. The time frame goes from 1961 – the year of the inauguration of Escola-Classe 107 Sul and the first news about it in the pages of Correio – and goes up to 1970, the date of the last news found about the institution. Despite being a new school – as new were, after all, all the schools in the recently opened federal capital – the school culture of Escola-Classe 107 Sul had as their vectors practices common to brazilian primary education at the time – such as school parties and campaigns and school competitions – but with specific meanings, arising from the uniqueness of the context, the institution and its subjects. In fact, when celebrating, the school did so to mark anniversaries of the city and the educational establishment itself, combining civic practices with celebratory practices, making the parties “educational” in a double sense: they instilled certain habits and behaviors in students, but also , disseminated in the community the civic-patriotic values ​​that marked schooling in those years of Civil-Military Dictatorship in the country. In turn, school campaigns and competitions provided children with involvement in community problems – both at school and in the city in which they lived – in line with the educational proposals of the period that wanted to give centrality to children's participation in educational processes. , as advocated, among other pedagogical currents in circulation, that of PABAEE.