“Entre afirmações e caos: Lycêo de Goyaz e a instrução secundária oitocentista"

Abstract

This study investigates the high school instruction in the Province of Goyaz, during the second half of the 19th century, taking as reference Lycêo de Goyaz. The aim of this study was to point out some initiatives that demonstrate a positive movement around the implementation of the high school instruction in the province. Through the investigation, it was revealed that even with the contradictions, common in the history of any time and place, we can see the possibility of having different viewpoints, going beyond the constituted crystallizations in the studies that deal with this topic and this period of time. The methodological theoretical outline of cultural history made it possible for this study to be undertaken the History of Education. This theoretical basis adopts the perspective of renewal and extension of the use of sources, thus contributing for a consequent increasing in the production of the Brazilian and regional historiography as well as it makes it possible to ask questions regarding the documents and the methodologies of the use of sources and their results. In order to carry that out in addition to delineating a course through the history of the high school education and identifying how this teaching has been approached in previous studies, we chose to focus on a book that is a reference for researches in the History of Education in the region. This book is called História da Instrução Pública em Goiás, by professor Genesco Ferreira Bretas, published in 1991. We analyzed what was written in the book and compared it to the documents left by the public instruction inspectors and to the book itself, being able to think about high school not only as a chaos, but also within a relevant process in its time.