THE OFFICIAL NORMAL SCHOOL OF PERNAMBUCO: STRATEGIES AND TACTICS OF PRODUCTION OF "SCHOOLIZED TEACHING" BETWEEN THE YEARS 1864 AND 1880

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the strategies and tactics of teaching formation and certification granted by the Official Normal School de Pernambuco (Brazil) between 1864 and 1880. Through the simple, direct and complete transcription (ARÓSTEGUI, 2006) of the documental records in the Annals of the Assembly of Pernambuco, in the petitions sent to the provincial deputies, in the regulations of the Escola Normal, in the legislations and reports of public instruction, as well as in some magazines, it was mobilized the categories "experience" (THOMPSON, 1981), "tactics" and "strategies" (DE CERTEAU, 1994), aiming to weave the ways in which government authorities, normalist students and Pernambuco primary public teachers, according to their positions, constructed meanings regarding the production of "schooled teaching" - training of teachers to work in the primary public teaching - promoted by the Normal School. It is concluded that, from the mid-1860's to the 1880's, the Normal School of Pernambuco went from being an indispensable alternative for a formation with rigor and theoretical, practical, and moral quality of primary public teaching; to a place whose internal and external practices were commanded by politicking, or denounced, or muffled by the public power, teachers, students. The practical codes of the trade, long known and applied in the schooling practices of Pernambuco society (SILVA, 2007) crossed and constituted the institutionalized formation of primary public teaching in Pernambuco in the second half of the 19th century.