Leituras históricas acerca de educação profissional na imprensa do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

ABSTRACT The research from which this dissertation originated had as its general objective to analyze news published in the Potiguar press, aiming to systematize historical readings about education and professional education in the press of Rio Grande do Norte from 1877-1947. The historical sources analyzed were five newspapers, the Macao, the Conservative Brado, the Federal Brado, the Republic and the Order, and a Magazine by the Historical and Geographic Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, which show how the different educational reforms and the changes were addressed. of public policies in relation to professional education in the Brazilian Empire and in the beginning of the first Republic, in the Vargas Era and in the Democratic Republic. In this context was used as methodological support the indicator method developed by Carlos Ginzburg as a support for reading the traces of Professional Education found in the sources. In total270 copies were analyzed between Newspapers and Magazines, of which 28 were used in this dissertation, 12 magazines and 16 journals. Of these 5, they are from Jornal Macauense, 2 from Jornal a República, 5 from Jornal a Ordem and 4 from Jornal o Brado Conservador. The sources show evidence of the formation of specific political groups that articulated with the press of Rio Grande do Norte during the period and determined the conduct of policies for education through discussions on education characterized as Civic, Intellectual, Moral, People, Education. Agricultural Professional, Education of the Blind and Youth Education. Finally, this research made it possible to understand that historical readings and microhistory can be articulated with the field of knowledge of Vocational Education, especially with the history of educational public policies. It also showed that the gaps, prior to 1909, about Vocational Education in Rio Grande do Norte can be filled with new research and that the History of Vocational Education can be reread in other sources such as photographs. Keywords: Professional education; Potiguar Press; Potiguar History of Education; Indicative method.