A sociedade propagadora do ensino: o Lyceu de Artes e Ofícios Benjamin Constant e o Orphelinato Paraense (1891-1900)

Abstract

The objective of this research was to understand the role of the Sociedade Propagadora de Ensino, in the performance of schools; Lyceu de Artes e Ofícios Benjamin Constant and Orphelinato Paraense in the period from 1891 to 1900, where I investigated this activity of the Sociedade Propagadora de Ensino, created to develop a curriculum to improve public education and its training, where the same one that created the Lyceu of Arts and Crafts Benjamin Constant, an institution dedicated to training young workers in the Province of Pará. This association called Sociedade Propagadora de Ensino was founded by Lauro Nina Sodré, governor of the Province of Pará, an officer in the Brazilian Army, graduated in Military Engineering and Bachelor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Military School of Praia Vermelha in Rio de Janeiro, in the final years of the Monarchy. Therefore, the Sociedade Propagadora de Ensino (SPE) implemented a training system through a curriculum, whose focus was the creation of a qualified workforce to eradicate illiteracy that persisted even with the advent of the Republic, and therefore, the objective of the SPE, was to implement a program that would supply and minimize the most humble and poor, and that would train these workers to be inserted in factories in the province of Pará. In this sense, the thesis seeks to understand the relevance of the types of training directed to these schools, analyzing the curricula, profiles and performance of teachers and students among other important issues for understanding the actions and proposals directed by the SPE. In order to answer these questions, the prosopographic method was used, based on the analysis and cross-referencing of information obtained from the researched documentation, such as, for example, rare works and periodicals from the collections of the Tancredo Neves Foundation, and of legislation, curricula and other documents from the collection of the Public Archive of the State of Pará, and rare works from the Central Library of the Federal University of Pará.