The idea of researching the newspaper O Estudante Orleanense emerged when we found several numbers printed in the collection of EEB Costa Carneiro, located in the city of Orleans/SC in one of the stages of implementation of the Centro de Memória da Educação do Sul de Santa Catarina. At the time (2010), found 57 copies, plus a minute book of the Associação Jornal Escolar O Estudante Orleanense. This article proposes to give visibility to student practices and knowledge, but mainly to understand the contribution of these instruments informal education - newspaper and association - the school culture made this educational institution between the years 1949 and 1973, regarding the civilizing process underway with the installation of the primary school at the national, state and local.
school journal; culture school; civilizing process