The analysis about education in Pelotas city, using the intendentials reports of the Augusto Simões Lopes Government (1924-1928)

Abstract

This article works, using the analysis of the Intendentials Reports produced by the Augusto Simões Lopes’ government, mayor of Pelotas City between 1924 and 1928, the discussions about education at the period. For its accomplishment we have been used the reports of 1925, 1926, 1927 AND 1928. The educational questions have been vividly discussing, as in Rio Grande do Sul as in other states of the country. Therefore, the positivism, theory present in the Rio Grande do Sul government in the Old Republic, had a position about education, in the sense that the Augusto Simões Lopes had an actuation linked with his party, The Republican Party of Rio Grande do Sul (PRR ). The analysis of the documents, along the studies of theory and methodological references, enabled to realize that the education was the way founded to get strong the young Republic, presenting icons and beliefs for the population, diffusing the love for native country in the cities and countries, especially at the primary school. The government of Simões Lopes chooses the teaching primary as a central point of the government marketing, using the building of schools as a way to have visibilities, like the country schools and the schools groups.