2014-07-292011-01-032010-09-19DOURADO, Benvinda Barros. Education in Tocantins: Porto State Gym National. 2010. 312 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Humanas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2010.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1071This study, linked to the research line State and Education Policy the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FE/UFG , aims to discuss the history of education in Tocantins, Goias old north, through the study of schooling in the municipality of Porto Nacional, and particularly the historical trajectory of Public School . To this end, we sought to address the processes of formation and evolution of educational institutions (MAGALHÃES, 1998, 1999, 2005) to contribute as a foundation for the inflections in Public School. The research comprises a diverse corpus of documents, mediated by oral history (THOMPSO, 1992), through individual and collective memory (POLLAK, 1989, 1992, HALBWACHS, 2006). Through this study, we realize that until the early 1940s, in the northern state of Goiás, Tocantins current, and consequently, in Porto Nacional, there was a historical legacy of inadequate school structure state and free to attend school population. In this context a network of predominantly isolated primary schools and some secondary school classes loose. Thus, it is observed that the State Gymnasium, secondary institution founded in 1945 in Porto Nacional-TO collaborated decisively with the institutionalization of public secondary education in Tocantins (northern Goiás).application/pdfAcesso AbertoEducaçãoTocantinsPorto NacionalEducation, Tocantins, Porto Nacional1.Educação Tocantins (Estado) 2.Porto NacionalCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAOTese