Instituto de Humanidades: História de um Educandário Cearense na Belle Époque (1904-1914)

Abstract

This dissertation presents the construction of the cronical history of the Instituto de Humanidades, private school, in Fortaleza – Ceará, during its functioning period: from 1904 to 1914, that is, in the context of the belle époque. Since the object of study of this dissertation is the Instituto de Humanidades, the primary source which made possible the analysis of the studied school’s work and also the analysis of the school culture that backboned its pedagogical practices, was the “Revista Escolar”, periodical that was part of the Insituto de Humanidades itself ant that was devised and edited by the Principal Joaquim da Costa Nogueira. The primary sources of this study were found in the “Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Ceará”, in the rare book sector of the “Biblioteca Pública Governador Menexes Pimentel” and in the “Academia Cearense de Letras”. We must point that the iconographical material were traced in the “Museu da Imagem e do Som do Ceará”. Since the writing process of this work encompasses that of a cronical history, we have adopted Barbara Tuchman as reference, mainly from her work – “The historical practice”. Concerning the study of the history of the school institutions and those on School culture we have based our work in the texts of Justino Pereira de Magalhães, Rosa Fátima de Souza, Vera Teresa Valdemarin and Franco Cambi. In the lines of this dissertation we may realize that the “Instituto de Hmanidades”, being a private institution, educated students from the highest economical, political and intelectual class level, offering them an education based on the method of intuitive teaching and on patriotic values that were present in the republican imagination at that time.