Modern pedagogy in the normal school of Maranhão: methodological guidelines for teacher education

Abstract

This article results from the research 'O mestre e a escola: lições de Pedagogia Moderna para o Estado do Maranhão com Antonio Baptista Barbosa de Godois, professor normalista em 1910', linked to the Institutional Program of Scientific Initiation Scholarships of the Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in partnership with the Fundo de Amparo e Pesquisa do Estado do Maranhão. The general objective was to identify the didactic orientations of Modern Pedagogy present in work 'O mestre e a escola' published in the Maranhão capital in the second republican decade and to analyze the hygienist and pedagogical strategies cited by the author to facilitate its introduction in the Normal School, consolidating the modern elementary school in the State of Maranhão. The methodology of this documentary and bibliographical research applied content analysis as a technique for collecting and treating data that was not restricted to the analysis of the work under study but extended to official documents of the State of Maranhão, made available to the public in the Rare Works section of the Benedito Leite Public Library located in the center of the city of São Luis-MA. In synthesis, it was identified that a congregation of pedagogical doctrines proper to the new republican cultural demand with warnings that traditional teaching did not respond to the formative proclamations of normalized teachers in modern society. Hopefully, the historicization produced will indicate which lessons of Modern Pedagogy were introduced and subsequently multiplied in Maranhão's public instruction.