O Moderno no progresso de uma cultura urbana, escolar e religiosa e a Educação Secundária do Instituto Presbiteriano Gammon (1892-1942)

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Jardel Costa [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação - Historia; Escolas - História; Antropologia educacional; Ensino religioso; Escola Religião; Education
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123301; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/27-04-2015/000824001.pdf

This paper is a historiographical analysis of a confessional private school institution. Presbyterian missionaries from the United States founded, in 1869, the International School in the city of Campinas, SP, which was transferred to Lavras, MG, in 1892 and received the name of Evangelical Institute. Through this study we sought to understand how this school was constituted throughout time, building a differentiated and remarkable scholar culture for its time. A key factor to its development was its urban insertion, at a time when many other institutions were already present in the land of Lavras and had the support of local authorities. With time, the mission of contributing to the progress, not only of the city, but also of Brazil, was incorporated into their educational ideals, creating a school system that included students from various Brazilian locations. The modern category was the object of understanding the progress of the urban, school and religious culture present both in Secondary Education and in other schools belonging to the Evangelical Institute in an attempt to understand how the latter and other institutions called themselves and were also entitled. A web of relationships was established by its founders, Samuel Rhea Gammon and Carlota Kemper, who were dedicated to evangelization and direction of the Institute. From these networks of sociability, both conquered the trust of lavrenses and were inserted in the history of the city they helped educate