Dom Joaquim Silvério de Souza Rural School, in Conselheiro Mata District, Diamantina City, Brazil

1950s pedagogical practices reflections

Abstract

The aim of the study was to reflect on the context of the establishment of the Normal Rural School Dom Joaquim Silvério de Souza, in the district of Conselheiro Mata, municipality of Diamantina, Brazil, as well as its operation and the training of normaliens to work in rural areas. A search was carried out in the Libraries of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri, where two thesis and two dissertations were found, which were the basis of this analysis. This analysis identifies the political events that stimulated the restructuring of rural education, as well as the way in which normaliens were prepared to work in rural areas. We addressed issues related to theoretical and instrumental renewal in the training of primary school teachers for rural areas, the identification and understanding of the relationship between traditional practices and school health practices of rural populations, and the investigation of writing practices through the analysis of diaries produced in school. These studies are of great value to educators, as the way in which disciplines are approached brings out educational and social particularities of different times, which can try to cover up differences and diversities as well as instill thoughts according to the interests of the current policy.