A ciência e a educação em um jornal da Amazônia: Folha do Norte (1896 -1897)

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze the discourses on Science and Education that circulated in the pages of the newspaper Folha do Norte in the years 1896 and 1897, which lasted seventy - eight years, beginning its activities in January 1896 and circulating daily until 1974. The newspaper Folha do Norte was a newspaper of great importance in the history of the press in Pará, for being involved in the political scene, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, being a strong supporter of the Federal Republican Party, led by Lauro Sodré, who fiercely opposed the policy of Antônio Lemos, owner of the newspaper The Province of Pará. Our object of study is the newspaper Folha do Norte, which included in its publications the political news and other topics, although we tried to collect those that were related to our objective that was the news about Science and Education. in all the available copies in the Digital Library of the National Library of the years of 1896 and 1897, finding columns and loose notes that spread scientific news and about public education, among them, the columns "Revistinha Scientífica" and "Respiga Scientífica" that they brought news related to science. News about the Roentgen Rays or X-Rays were also present on the pages of this newspaper that were mainly used for our analysis to seek to question whether these notes constructed positive or negative images about the sciences and how these images were constructed? There were also news items dealing with educational and organizational issues, including invitations to take admission exams, call students for second-call tests, and others. We also found a column entitled "Public Instruction", which dealt with matters related to the regulation voted in the year 1896; classification of schools in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of the cities of the interior and of the capital, as well as other notes that related to the events that occurred in educational institutions in Pará. However, we did not find news that talked about science and education together.