Boletim Vida Escolar: uma fonte e múltiplas leituras sobre a educação no início do século XX

Abstract

The book Boletim Vida Escolar: uma fonte e múltiplas leituras sobre a educação no início do século XX (Boletim Vida Escolar: a source and multiple readings about education from the beginning of the 20 th Century), organized by Ana Maria de Oliveira Galvão and Eliane Marta Teixeira Lopes, was recently released and brings together texts from five researchers from the History of Education Study and Research Group of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), written especially for the book. The chapters adopt different approaches to the same subject, the Boletim Vida Escolar, which circulated in Lavras (MG) between May 1907 and November 1908. Studies of educational publications are recurrent in the field of History of Education, since they allow details to emerge of the tensions present in the educational debate. The educational press produced more intensely from the second half of the nineteenth century, especially training material for teachers, considering the limited amount of textbooks available for this function. In the twentieth century the educational press extended its approach and the emergence of publications affiliated with different institutions can be observed. Boletim Vida Escolar fits into this logic, it was a publication of the Lavras School Group, created on May 13, 1907. Its director, Firmino Coast, was also the editor of the Boletim. The publication consisted of four pages, was issued fortnightly, with 34 issues being published in total. The texts presented in the publication were didactic or educational, with some being informative. It should be noted that it circulated in various locations in the municipality and the state, which indicates a wide dissemination of the ideas it published. Galvão, Ana Maria de oliveira; Lopes, eliane Marta Teixeira (org.