THE THE MASTER “BARBOSA DE GODÓIS” AND THE MARANHENSE SCHOOL

Abstract

This work focuses on the reflections of Barbosa de Godóis recorded in his publications on the elementary school and the branches of education that highlight his performance as a pedagogist, intellectual and man of government It emphasize the discernment exposed in O mestre e a escola (The master and the school), of 1910, which points out the polarity between instruction and education, highlighting the differences and the consensus between the typologies of education, so necessary for the effectiveness of the teaching process in the school environment. It returns to the polemic recorded in the newspapers between the inspector of Public Instruction (Antônio Lobo) and Godóis,  then director of Escola Normal and Modelo (Teacher’s and Model School), for the approval or rejection of his 1904 Escripta Rudimentar (Rudimentary Writing), according to the interpretations of the active method in the teaching of reading. In this sense, inquiring about Barbosa de Godóis in the context of elementary education in Maranhão, and his role as a teacher and educational intellectual, is necessary to understand the constraints  imposed on him when proposing his pedagogical ideas in the public teaching scenario, the conceptions he defended on popular instruction and practical education of the people in the context of the graduated school, as well as his trajectory as a person at the heart of local education.