Experiences in rural ethnic schools in the south of Santa Catarina within the context of education and its nationalization

Abstract

It is the schools “Núcleo Hercílio Luz” and “Casimir Stachurski” maintained initially by nuclei of Italian and Polish immigrants, respectively. In the 1930s these institutions were made by state government and, later, in the 1990s, the municipal government. When studying the histories of these two schools, we seek primarily to understand the experiences of the subjects - male and female students - in the process of nationalization of education, from teaching practices that have been established there and articulated. The research occurred from documentary sources and oral sources. The oral documents, produced from interviews with former students, were constructed using the methodology of oral history. In principle, the classes took place in homes or places assigned by the residents themselves. The teaching staff consisted of teachers, ie those that dominated the reading and writing in the language of immigrants and taught their sons and daughters. With the nationalization process of teaching, mainly in the New State Government Vargas, teachers were dismissed and replaced by teachers who spoke and taught in Portuguese. These schools harbored different experiences, marked by the cultures of the different groups of immigrants, but also rebuilt cultures within and outside the school environment.