Abstract:
This article discusses the themes that stood out in the field of Brazilian education connected to the national-developmental project in the state of Pará. Aware of the rigors of historical research and the importance of the historiographic debate on the subject, we propose to analyze the sources, considering the discursive potential that they offer to our interpretative analysis. To this end, we will focus on the articles that were published in the newspaper A Província do Pará, between the years 1957 to 1961. Three important themes that were recurrent in the pages of this journal were analyzed: ‘quality of education’, ‘assessment of education’ and ‘expansion of education’. We conclude that the published notes on quality, expansion and assessment of education highlighted the importance of this issue for the debate that boosted actions in the context of education in Pará, which in the light of our analysis, made sense in the local development project.
Keywords:
history of paraense education; educational policies; school practices; press