The professional trajectory of student-teachers: the home-grown talents of the Educational Institute of Rio de Janeiro (1930-1960)

Abstract

The professional trajectory by three student-teachers who completed their teacher qualification programat the Instituto de Educação do Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s is analyzed. After graduating from the Universidade do Distrito Federal and the FaculdadeNacional de Filosofia, they returned ‘home’ and joined the Instituto as fully-qualified teachers. Their undergraduate studies and teaching career occurred under Vargas’ first administration period (1930-1945), or rather, heavily shaped by a excluding system which restricted access to higher education to those who came from the propaedeutic secondary school. Family and political alliances, the adherence to educational projects and breaches in the educational legislation facilitated access to higher education and later to teaching positions as fully-qualified teachers.