Portraits and records of schoolsin São João de Meriti County (RJ): population profile and teachers’ career trajectory (1920-1943)

Abstract:

We have analyzed the racial and population profile of students and teachers from public elementary schools in São João do Meriti County, in light of the history on the presence of non-white populations in public education. Based on the theoretical reference of the territory adopted as analysis position, the documental research methodology compared 12 photographs of schools to their respective school attendance maps and to the search for teachers’ names in the press. The ways and daily routines of the photographed schools, demands for applications and teachers’ trajectories that disclose, among other aspects, the access and permanence conditions, and the range and limits of education experiences concerning peripheral non-white populations between 1920 and 1943, were presented as results.

Keywords:
regional study on education; race; childhood; teaching