O ethos do trabalho nas páginas de periódicos educacionais brasileiros: trabalhos manuais como signo da modernização pedagógica (1906 - 1934)

Abstract

This study intends to discuss the Handworks presence in two pedagogical Brazilian journals: A Escola, published between 1906 and 1921in Paraná state, and Revista do Ensino, published between 1925 and 1940, in Minas Gerais state, and the Manoel Penna’s textbook Schoolar Handworks, published in Minas Gerais in 1934. Beyond preoccupations with workers formation for the factories, the primary school used different curricular strategies to stimulate students' activities. They were centered in students’ experiences so that they could develop a disposition for action, according to the modern industrial world. Expressed in various ways between the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century in virtually all Western world, the relation between education and work presupposed the mobilization of corporal senses for the development of appropriate sensibilities for a new world. That intention was to stimulate action, will development, and creative capacity, all modernizing signs of the primary school and of the Brazilian society, as show the Manoel Penna textbook highlightedin this article.