A criação da Escola Territorial de 1º e 2º graus Paulo de Assis Ribeiro no processo de colonização de Colorado do Oeste/RO (1974-1989)

Abstract

This dissertation, linked to Grupo de Pesquisa História da Educação e Memória (Research group of History of Education and Memory, free translation) of the Post-Graduation Program of the University of Mato Grosso, has as subject of its research the Territorial Primary and Secondary School Paulo de Assis Ribeiro, the first official school in Colorado Do Oeste, Rondônia. The time cut set between the decades of 1970 and 1980 is substantiated due to the fact of being a period of time of an intense migratory flux to the region that brought about the inauguration of the school. The guiding question of this research is: how was this school’s culture being formed with its own characteristics in the face of a universe of migration and formation a city? It is aimed to comprehend the process of creation and establishing the Territorial Secondary School Paulo de Assis Ribeiro. It has as specific objectives: to analyze the goal and how Colorado do Oeste came to be; to identify which goals and intentions to establish a school amidst the jungle; to check how the school worked, which the normative for its functioning was. To accomplish the proposed goals, documents found both in the school and in the Regional Coordination of Education (Coordenadoria Regional de Educação, in Portuguese) in Vilhena, Rondônia, as well as iconographic sources given both by teachers and migrants from their personal collections. Besides this documental collection, this research is based off the presupposition of oral history, having as participants some of the teachers who worked at the school back then, ex-students and, also, people from the community who took part in the process of the colonization of the city. For such, this research has as its theoretical basis discussions in the field of Cultural History (CERTEAU, 2014), School Culture (JULIA, 2004) and Representations (CHARTIER 1991; 2020). The oral and documental analyses enabled to observe how the community of the Territorial Primary and Secondary School Paulo de Assis Ribeiro took hold of the current legislation and adapted it to the reality in which they were inserted amidst the jungle.