As ideias educacionais e políticas de Silvino Elvídio Carneiro da Cunha na província da Parahyba do Norte (1874 - 1876)

Abstract

This work had as objective analyze the ideas of instruction, modernity and progress present in political activity of Silvino Elvídio Carneiro da Cunha between 1874 and 1875. The periodization is justified because, during that period, Carneiro da Cunha was the presidente of the province of Parahyba do Norte. In the insertion of the this in the Brazilian modernization process, Your government developed educational ideas for the province of Parahyba do Norte that were linked to a modern nation project bringing themes that were present in the national and local debates on free education, classes Popular education and teacher training. Carneiro da Cunha's work is part of the interweaving that surrounds it with the historical context in which Brazil and Paraíba were based on events that exerted political and social impact. As for example the popular revolt of the Quebra-Quilos, changes of regime, slave labor going towards the end, construction of railroads among other modifications guided by the ideas of progress and modernity. Thus we can understand the way in which these ideas designed for the province were inserted in this panorama of the second half of the nineteenth century. We used as a source, above all, the official documents - presidential messages, reports, legislation, as well as newspapers from the period to understand the circulation of ideas and the events that gave shape to the political contours of the Province. As theoretical foundation we made use of the contributions of Intellectual History and Political History to help interdisciplinarily in the History of Education. For this, we have made use of vast literature that surpasses these fields of research. Among these works, we take for example the contribution of the French historian Jean-François Sirinelli, who helped us to understand the subjects in a social and historical perspective and in their intellectual trajectories. Another literature used to base our research was based on the ideas of René Remond with his contribution to Renewed Political History that far from presenting simple linear narratives or decontextualized biographies, is therefore used of the ideas of certain subjects with their social contexts. We also count on the contributions made by Roger Chartier and Francisco Falcon to the Intellectual History that is characterized by all forms of thought, instead of the traditional history of ideas, seeking to insert the study of ideas and attitudes in the set of social practices. Thus, we place the History of Education as a field capable of providing confluences between the Intellectual and Political histories allowing to have elements that subsidize bases to think broader themes, about the politics, societies and education in certain contexts. Finally, we intend, with this effort to understand some of the elements brought by Silvino Elvídio Carneiro da Cunha in the local context, to approach the discussions between historiography, education and the role played by this subject.