Life of Teacher: ideas and adventures of Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro during the First Republic

Authors

  • Elaine Pereira Rocha The University of the West Indies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2016v8n15p29

Keywords:

education, feminism, indigenism, positivism

Abstract

During the last years of the Brazilian Empire and during the First Republic, the Brazilian education system was established as part of the modernization project. Right from the start there was evidence of the growing engagement of women employed as teachers. The Bahian teacher Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro was one of those teachers. Part of a “lower middle class” that was formed in Rio de Janeiro, the teacher had an extremely rich life, which she recorded in autobiographical writings, along with testimonies and ideas about politics and education. This article presents the life of Leolinda as a teacher, the economic challenges that she faced and her professional practice and ideas, higly influenced by the positivist philosophy. The trajectory of Leolinda enables an examination of life in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro between 1890 and 1930, mainly by mixing the modernizing project and attempt to introduce some order in the society by the state,it also includes the indigenous debate and claims of women who gave birth to the Brazilian feminist movement. 

 

Author Biography

Elaine Pereira Rocha, The University of the West Indies

Elaine Pereira Rocha é coordenadora da área de história da América Latina e chefe do departamento de história e filosofia da Universidade de West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Possui doutorado em história social pela Universidade de São Paulo, mestrado em história cultural pela University of Pretoria (África do Sul), e outro mestrado em história pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Já pesquisou e lecionou em universidades como College of Charleston (2002, Carolina do Sul, EUA), University of Pretoria, África do Sul (2003-2005), Addis Ababa University, Addis Abeba, Etiópia (2005-2007) e ensina em Barbados desde 2007.

Sua atuação se concentra nos estudos das relações raciais no Brasil e América Latina, história das mulheres e relações de gênero no Brasil e América Latina. Elaine Rocha publicou três livros: “Another Black Like Me: The Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora ”(New Castle: Cabridge Scholar Publishers, 2015); “Racism in Novels: a Comparative Study of Brazilian and South African Cultural History”( New Castle: Cabridge Scholar Publishers,2010); “Saci Pererê: O Vento da Liberdade”(Rio de Janeiro, OR, 2000). 

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Published

2017-02-06

How to Cite

ROCHA, Elaine Pereira. Life of Teacher: ideas and adventures of Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro during the First Republic. Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 8, n. 15, p. 29–47, 2017. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2016v8n15p29. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2016v8n15p29. Acesso em: 8 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 15 (2016): Biografia e História do Trabalho (I)

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Dossiê

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