Places of teaching in the Imperial Court: the protagonism of the primary teacher Candido Matheus de Faria Pardal

Abstract

This study intends to analyze the trajectory of the primary public teacher Candido Matheus de Faria Pardal (1818-1888), articulating the teaching and his performance by different spaces and associations of social, political, economic, religious and recreational character, in the in the Capital of the Brazilian Empire. The art of teaching, the spaces in which he acted and the relations constituted with the most varied subjects enabled the teacher to gain experience and visibility in the Court and in other provinces of the country. His trajectory allows him to compose a dynamic scenario around the teaching profession in the 19th century that gives prominence to the activity of teaching, but also to associate, amuse, elect, order, among many others, showing heterogeneous ways of being and being in the city.To perform the research were used newspapers of the nineteenth century press, available digitally in the Brazilian national library; handwritten documents of the General Archive of the City of Rio de Janeiro; Reports of the General Inspectorate of Primary and Secondary Education of the Court; documents from the Archives of the D. João VI Museum and the Archives of the Pedro II College. By tracking the ‘name string’, it was possible to gather a variety of information about the life of this teacher analyzed in sets of scales that organize the reflection in two parts. The first deals with the performance of the Candido Pardal in the classroom; the second analyzes its performance in the city unfolding in the local, political, social, economic, religious and recreational spheres.