“Uma cidade só cresce se a população crescer intelectualmente”: uma história da Educação de Serra Branca - PB (1942-1986).

Abstract

In this study, we aim ai discussing the paths traveled by the pioneers of education in the city of Serra Branca-PB, ffom 1942 to 1986. In our analyses, we realized initiallv as was the relationship between the villagers and the parish priest, in Charge Joäo Marques Pereira of education in the city. In the first chapter, we analyze the struggles of Creators to be able to open a school in the municipality, the ways of educating, the reason for the creation of the only cinema in the city and the deployment of the groups in the countryside. In the second chapter, we discussed about the deployment of the first schools, courses and the impact on the daily lives of students and teachers. Also in this chapter, we discuss the intervention of political power in education and changes by schools to resolve the financial problems. For aehievement of this research, we speak with authors, like de Souza with their discussions about the history of Serra Branca-PB; Pimentei and Aguilar that helped me to understand the difference between rural school and field school, as well as the processes of implementation of these groups; Field that discusses the training of workers, among others. We also had the essential collaboration of the oral accounts of those who participated actively in the establishment of educational institutions both in urban and in rural areas. Through their thoughts about education and the creation of the groups, we reali zed that education w’as responsible for social, economic and intellectual development in the municipality. We still had the pleasure of reading the descriptions left by Canon John Majid who was the "responsible" for the intense mobilization that culmmated with the construction of the first school in the city.