The equivalence of high schools to national gymnasium in the first republic: the case of the Diocesan College of Paraiba

Authors

  • Wojciech Andrzej Kulesza Universidade Federal da Paraíba Author

Keywords:

Secondary Education, Laity, Catholic Church, Educational Institutions, Education Policy

Abstract

Since the foundation of the College of Pedro II in 1838 successive legislators tried to take it as a model, not only for the schools of Rio de Janeiro but for the whole Brazilian high school. Gradually the equalization to this institution was the mechanism encountered by the government to make uniform secondary education throughout the country. With the republican laicization, the Catholic Church also begins to consider useful this mechanism to sanction officially the studies in their schools. This work, based in the documentation founded in Brazilian National Archive, focused the institution of definitive equivalence of the Diocesan College of Paraiba to the Gymnasium National in 1908.

 

Author Biography

  • Wojciech Andrzej Kulesza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

    Mestre em Ciências pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Doutor em Educação

    pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), professor do Programa de Pós-

    -Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) e membro

    do Grupo de Pesquisa “Ciência, Educação e Sociedade”

Published

2011-12-23

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

The equivalence of high schools to national gymnasium in the first republic: the case of the Diocesan College of Paraiba. (2011). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 11(2 [26]), 81-102. https://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38498