O Grupo escolar Marechal Rondon (1967-1974): História da primeira instituição escolar no perímetro urbano de Naviraí-MS

Abstract

This study is linked to the Research Line “History of Education, Memory and Society, from the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program, Master in Education, of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD). The general research objective was to analyze the emergence process and the functioning of the Marechal Rondon School Group, located in the District/County of Naviraí, south region of Mato Grosso do Sul, with purpose to initially how do the school groups emerge and how they compacted with the localities development they were inserted. To achieve the objective, we conducted researches on the organization of these groups, on how primary education had changed over the period between 1910‟s and 1970‟s, and how the pension policy from thath time currently applied affect the educational system. The initiative to study the emergence of school groups in the country and in Mato Grosso, aimed to understand the locus of the research, which was is the region of the District of Naviraí. We emphasize that the School Group was the first located school institution in the urban perimeter. The delimited time lapse comprises the year of creation of the School Group, ocurred in 1967, through the Decree nº 223/1967, until it‟s extinction/transformation in 1974. We emphasize that before it‟s creation, that school already existed in anotheres standards, in a rural area, initially called Escola Rural Mista de Finoto. That way, the investigation was based on primary sources consisting from laws, regulations, regiments, presidential messages, government reports, collected in public archives and other researches related to the same theme. As to the methodology, it consisted from a bibliographic and documentary research, considering the school files of the institution, which were fundamental for a research. Besides that, were conducted semistructured interviews, aiming the expancion of the research. Through the results, we were able to understand what the School Group experienced difficulties related to other school groups in south of Mato Grosso, such the example as lack of funds, pedagogical support and school instruction. Despite this, it contributed to the development for the Naviraí‟s County, because the children‟s schooling and was required in the Brazil and meaning a condition for workers and families to stay in small towns, as the school group sucht that the School Group fulfilled it‟s role and, as we were able to analyze, as is detailed in the research, offering an organized education and in accordance with the legal norms current in that period.