A expansão das escolas unitárias primárias públicas norte-rio-grandenses (1835-1961)

Abstract

This work, has begun with the investigation of a school model under the tutelage of a single professor, the unitary school, which in the Republic periods was called isolated school. The study tried to analyze the expansion of unitary primary public schools in the state of Rio Grande Do Norte and the transformations of this school model in the state, looking to understand the pedagogical and how this schools worked in the 19th and 20th centuries. In order to understand it, it was needed to investigate its origins since the empire tiimes. Starting with the hypothesis that, even in the effervescence of institutionalization of public education, the schools in unitary models expanded more than scholar groups, once it represented less of a cost in terms of offer and professional formation, and that utilized the same model of empire schools to nominate a new condition and affirm the modernization and the Republican period. About the technical procedures of collecting data and analyzing it, the work was bibliographical and documental, once it developed based on bibliographical fonts and official publications. The delimitation was made crossing data from RN legislation, messages and government reports and anuary statistics from IBGE. The analysis showed that isolated schools have insoluble links with primary public schools in empire times, highlighting the modernization of this type of school in the beginning of Republic and the expansion in the public teaching machine in Rio Grande Do Norte, through which showed to develop a more broad, quantitative and democratic attending regarding scholar groups. It is concluded that isolated schools that seemed to be na inovative educational perspective, took a new a configuration that approaches more of singular school model, from empire. Regardless of, emerged along scholar groups history, reinvented themselves, expanded and became majority in the attending of primary teaching in Rio Grande Do Norte.