As práticas das festas escolares na Escola Normal de Pirassununga (1931-1950)

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the practices of the Normal School celebrations in the city of Pirassununga, in the period between 30 's and 50 's decades of the last century. The intent is to analyze the practices of the school celebrations as one of the instruments of the educational career and of the republican social memory. For so much, take as sources, Cardim's Manual (1916), a anthem book found in the library of the school in Pirassununga, the legislation on the school celebrations, the magazines: Educação (1927-1930), Escola Nova (1930-1931), Educação (1931-1932), Revista de Educação (1933-1944) and Educação (1945-1961), besides the references on the subject in the newspaper O Movimento . To these sources, interviews with former- teachers of the Normal School of Pirassununga are added , who studied during the period that comprehends the research and a notebook produced in the Teaching Practice discipline for one of the former-teacher interviewee. To accomplish the proposed analysis, the celebrations of the Normal School of Pirassununga, carrying itself in counts the learning of the educational exercise, they were classified in celebrations of the school success and celebration to learn to do with . It verified that at Normal School celebrations of Pirassununga, besides composing the educational professional culture, they constitute the social memory of the city