<b>Nationalization and teaching of History in the State of Santa Catarina, in the first half of the 20th century

Abstract

This article identified the influence and the interrelation of policies and educational theories of the national State, in speeches about which History must to be taught and what for, in the state of Santa Catarina, in the first half of the 20th century. It is intended mainly to focus on the interrelation between the History that will be taught and the nationalization, given the centralization of the federal Government for this purpose – whether in the Administration, programs and monitoring. From the Ministry of Education came instructions to fight against different manifestations of the foreign cultures existing in Brazil, especially the uses of language and the teaching of History and Geography in countries where the different ethnic groups came from. The documentary sources consist of bibliographical material, especially speeches of Jonathas Serrano, one of the spokesmen of a particular conception of History of the period and one of the formulators of speeches and official policy programs, clippings of educational legislation, and reports of school inspectors.