“I had the will, but I didn't know”

teaching and training of rural educators (Uberlândia-MG, 1960-1980)

Authors

  • Danielle Angélica de Assis Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil. Author
  • Sandra Cristina Fagundes de Lima Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/rbhe.v23.2023.e247

Keywords:

history of education, rural education, lay people, teaching practices

Abstract

This study allowed us to better understand both the teaching training of Uberlândia rural educators (from 1960 to 1980) and its meanings for teaching practice. We conducted interviews with six teachers and searched documents such as school census, newspapers reports and minutes of the City Hall. Five of the interviewees were lay people, and it was only in the late 1960’s they began to attend training courses significant for their classroom practice and career advancement, as they reported. This article concludes that, they even though they did not thoroughly appropriated the organized knowledge of the teaching profession, the teachers developed their professional practice thanks to the appropriation of their own experiences becoming literate, and thanks to some training courses.

Author Biographies

  • Danielle Angélica de Assis, Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil.

    Mestre em Educação, Pós-graduada em Psicopedagogia e Licenciada em Pedagogia pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Atua como coordenadora pedagógica em escola de educação infantil, no cargo de Analista Pedagógica, na Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia-MG. Seus estudos e pesquisas têm como áreas de interesse: história da educação rural, história da formação docente, história das professoras rurais, práticas pedagógicas, infâncias e memória.

  • Sandra Cristina Fagundes de Lima, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil

    Doutora em História pela UNICAMP. Realizou estágio pós doutoral em história da educação no Instituto de Educação na Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Professora titular aposentada da UFU, onde ministrou aulas de história da educação na graduação e na pós-graduação. Pesquisa temas relacionados à história da educação rural e cultura escolar.

Published

2023-01-09

Issue

Section

Original research

How to Cite

“I had the will, but I didn’t know”: teaching and training of rural educators (Uberlândia-MG, 1960-1980). (2023). Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 23(1), e247. https://doi.org/10.4025/rbhe.v23.2023.e247