Intellectuals from São Paulo in periodical press of Mato Grosso (1910-1920)

Abstract

This text has as principal objective to recover the personal and professional experiences of teachers from São Paulo in the places of social arrangements for which circulated and acted in Mato Grosso Press into service during the decades of 1910 and 1920. In this period the governing of Mato Grosso hired teachers in the State of São Paulo to work on reorganization of public instruction. As soon as they arrived, the teachers were entering in the multiplicity of spaces and places, engaged in the life of the city and in the places of production and dissemination of knowledge and contributing to the production of debates. Following the suggestions of theoretical-methodological Sirinelli (2003), we conducted a mapping of journalistic materials (articles and notes) about the teachers from São Paulo in Mato Grosso press, confronting with the biographical and intellectual production and with official data as regulations, presidential messages and reports, which it could be possible to understand which networks of intellectual, cultural and social relationships were formed. The publication, in the pages of newspapers, of texts related to the Republic, the nation, the secular school, the teaching methods, as well as on the personal behaviour of teachers, causing polemics and controversy between the various sectors of society at the time.