Imprensa e educação: o ensino primário rural nas páginas de jornais do município de Dourados - MT (1948-1974)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze how the press of general circulation, more specifically, the newspapers "O Douradense" and "O Progresso" from Dourados, a town in the South of Mato Grosso, represented the rural primary school in their pages from 1948 to1974. The time frame is justified initially because 1948 matches with the period of the installation of the Agricultural Colony of Dourados, due to Getulio Vargas’ colonizing project, known as the Marcha para o Oeste, which eventually enhanced the demographic development and also favored the expansion of the primary education in this locality. The year of 1974 is justified for signaling a period of changes in the operating conditions of rural primary schools in the municipality of Dourados due to the implementation of rural teaching courses in the locality, in a partnership between the State of Mato Grosso and the municipality. The research is driven by a perspective from the New Cultural History combined with a theoretical framework focused on History, History of Education, among others. The research was conducted through a documental research by collecting data from the Regional Documentation Centre of the Federal University of the Grande Dourados, from editions of the newspapers "O Douradense" and from the "O Progresso", which circulated in the surveyed period. The analyses from the editions of the two newspapers from Dourados allowed us to verify that the rural primary teaching was not a subject really present in the news. They also showed that this issue, when present in the news, was represented both by the difficulties experienced by the primary school in rural areas and by the benefits received from the construction of new schools, from the funds to improve their working conditions and from the training courses for the teachers of those schools. We hope that this work, which uses the press of general circulation as a source of research, will contribute to the writing of an education history of rural teaching in the Southern of Mato Grosso.