| dc.description.abstract | This work approaches a thematic that inflects public policies and history of
education. It analysis which way the Inspectorate of Education of the city of Rio
Grande – RS was the implementer of educational policies between 1930-1940. The
geography of the region facilitated the installation of a port, making the city the outlet
of the south region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The flow of foreign funds in the
end of the XIX century ended up creating different relations of ethnics with the
government which reflected also in education. In the Vargas time, the first initiative
regarding education was the creation of Education and Public Health Ministry,
followed by an educational reform. The civics also was priority in the Vargas
educational public policies. It is a characteristic of Vargas time the campaign of
nationalization of teaching, very present in Rio Grande do Sul in the regions of
European colonization. The emphasis was in the national content, especially in the
disciplines of Brazilian history and geography, as well as Portuguese and fighting
divergent ideas of the national idea. The work of the school inspector was guided by
political determinations and also ideological, typical of the historical period. Control,
supervision and even punishment had always been linked, throughout educational
history, to school inspection. This way, the school inspection sought to exert control
through supervisions around the agents involved in education, as well as the
educational institutions, aiming the accomplishment, control and regulation of the
educational policies of the period. The inspections made by the Educational
Inspectorate of Rio Grande came to be more rigorous, pointing out flaws and
charging the measures suggested. However, the inspector did not have the power of
action, he pointed out flows and suggested solutions, but the final word was the
mayor’s. The search for the order, for neatness and for discipline was constant, and
had as its focus the work of teachers and the conduct of the school, it was verified in
the inspections conducted periodically. The Educational Inspectorate sought the
balance between the educational policies and the links in the community expressed
in the examples pointed out by the utilized documentation. In the analyzed cases,
occurred the different usage of nationalist education requirements. This fact is due to
the links with the community and the search by the power maintenance. In Rio
Grande, the Educational Inspectorate sought to keep a good relation with the
community, attending its demands and seeking a balance with the national
requirements always as possible. The work was done with primary fonts, that were
analyzed from the historical-critical methodology. | en |
