História e memórias: a Escola Municipal de Primeiro Grau Antonio João Ribeiro do distrito de Indápolis - MS (1973-1988)

Abstract

In this paper we present the results of the master's research developed in the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), in the search area of History of Education, Memory and Society, which analyzed the history of the Escola Municipal de Primeiro Grau Antonio João Ribeiro, of the district of Indápolis (old Serraria’s district), located in the Region of Barreirão, in Dourados, between 1973 and 1988. The year 1973 means the construction of this school in the district, through the the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) with the Command of the 8th Military Region (RM). 1988 marked the year of the promulgation of a new Constitution for Brazil, for 20 years of military dictatorship, for that reason the Constitution the right to education becomes a right of all, becoming the duty of the State offer it. The research was based on the references of History, History of Education, and on the analysis of sources of documentation of the Municipal Secretariat of Education of Dourados (SEMED), the Regional Documentation Center of the UFGD, the Museum of the Agricultural Colony of Dourados. Interviews with district residents, former teachers and alumni were used too. Through the sources consulted and the referential addressed, the statistics of his country were made by a family of Japanese immigrants, the residents of the Colonial Nucleus of Dourados and his army were promoted by the army of the Municipality of Campo Grande. We can be said this school was created and also put into operation during the military regime in Brazil and in Mato Grosso to attend the children of the small rural owners and their employees, having as teachers, at the beginning, qualified in the Course of Teaching and others still undergoing training in this course. We consider that the creation of this school had a significant role in the schooling of children, young people and adults living in this locality, since the establishment of an institution of this nature had long been desired by the local population. Finally, with regard to the organization of its teaching, we verified that this school was based, from the beginning on the prescriptions of Law nº 5.692/71, as well as in the teaching regulations of Mato Grosso. The teachers, even working in multi-series classrooms, could not count on many didacticpedagogical equipment and materials, only with the use of the "Smooth Path" Primer. These teachers were given few guidance from SEMED, a situation that underwent changes only in the 1980s, when meetings for orientation of teaching work intensified on the part of this institution. However, we can conclude this school, even with few didacticpedagogical equipment and materials, has contributed to the schooling process in this rural locality, from the present state of Mato Grosso do Sul (formerly Mato Grosso).