Professores e professoras do ensino secundário em Dourados/MT de 1951 a 1961, na vigência da reforma capanema

Abstract

In this master's thesis research, it was analyzed the history of secondary school teachers in Dourados, Mato Grosso, during the validity of Decree Law n. 4.244/1942, part of the Capanema Reform. The period established for this research was from 1951 to 1961, which comprises, respectively, the foundation of the Presidente Vargas Gymnasium, in the city of Dourados, and the year in which the effective period of the Capanema Reform ended, through Law n. 4024/1961, the Law Guidelines and Bases of National Education. The starting point for this research was the questions about who were the secondary school teachers in Dourados and what changes occurred in the teaching profession in the referred period after the Capanema Reform. For this purpose, a regional bibliographic survey was carried out and the methodological procedures were defined. It was a historical documentary research, for which the documents collected at the Regional Documentation Center of the Federal University of Grande Dourados were transformed into sources about the Osvaldo Cruz Gymnasium (1954) and about the Presidente Vargas Gymnasium (1951/1958), in addition to having related the documents of these collections with the Organic Law of Secondary School of 1942, part of the set of laws known as Capanema Reformation. These reserach sources were analyzed from the perspective of Certeau (1982) and Le Goff (1990). The analysis showed that the majority of the secondary school teaching staff in Dourados, between the years 1951 and 1961, was formed by lawyers, doctors, priests, realizing that, since the indicated time, there is a need for in-service training, provided for in the Organic Law of Secondary Education. It was concluded that high school teachers from Dourados sought to adapt to Decree-Law n. 4.244/1942 regarding training, but they still faced many challenges in relation to salary and working conditions.