Educação primária no sul de Mato Grosso: o grupo escolar de Bataiporã - MT (1955-1974)

Abstract

This work presents when they resulted from a reseacrh relating to primary education offered in the South of the old Mato Grosso (SMT) and sought to investigate and to analyse which elements allowed his appearance and functioning at a specific place and in a circumscribed historical moment. The chronological time-frame is from 1955 to 1974. The first date is justified because of having begun the functioning of the school institution, with his official creation like Coeducational Rural School of Bataiporã, then transformed into School Group of Bataiporã. In 1974 the School Group was integrated to the State Secondary school of Bataiporã (created in 1969), passing two institutions to work with new structure and denomination: State school of 1st Degree “Jan Antonin Bata“. The research orientates in the perspective post-critical, combined with the theoretical foucaultiano. Studies and research on primary education in Brazil, Mato Grosso and south of this state and on the colonization and populating the city of Batayporã. The documentary research was guided in the various documents collected in the Center of Memory Jindrich Trachta and in the archive of the State School Jan Antonin Bata, in addition to interviews and testimonies with subjects participated and formed the School Group of Batayporã, while teachers and students. The analysis of the documents has check the first few years of operation of the school institution in the city. One of the characteristics on the creation of the school is the operation of it before the official creation by the state and, furthermore, the creation of the School Group even before the Municipal Batayporã emancipation. And the teachers worked with a traditional methodology, which consisted in teaching of more easy to the more difficult, expositive classes, using the blackboard and booklet “Caminho Suave” to teach the content and teach students. Teachers also perfomed singing lessons and other activities that included Saturdays.