Journal «Escola Nova»: The printed object at the service of education reform

Abstract

This paper presents results of studies and research centered on the magazine «Escola Nova», which was a publication organized and directed by Manoel Bergström Lourenço Filho from 1930 to 1931. Lourenço Filho was named General Director of Public Instruction by the Provisional Government of the 1930 Revolution. He used the magazine as a mouthpiece for the ongoing education reform and dissemination of topics concerning the renewal of pedagogical culture, namely the new school, school programs, education and health, initiation to study of tests, the professional orientation problem, and educational cinema.