Reforms and regulations of the public education of Mato Grosso (1889-1927)

Abstract

The text presents considerations about the reforms of the public education , normally started by governments and politic leaderships and in this in case the ones of Mato Grosso, with the objective to improve this sector, becoming a mechanism of modernization of the state and perhaps the country’s. So, the background used in the narrative is a historical description trying to demonstrate the influences and decisiveness in relation to these measures, as well as certain advances and overcomings that probably have occurred by reforming initiatives . On that account , primary sources are used : governmental messages, regulations, decrees, and others of secondary aspect - publications that focus the subject - while support for the analysis. In general terms, it can be said that the reforms have contributed partly for the alteration of the public education scene of Mato Grosso. Mechanisms stimulated and favored by legislation changes like the construction of schools (elementary schools, congregated and isolated), reinforcement of elementary education and the regency course, have only had considerable increments from de 40’s and 50’s , considered by me and other studious people as somewhat delayed, in comparison to reform movements in other states of the country.