INTERFACES BETWEEN THE LANCASTER METHOD AND DISTANCE EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: HISTORY, CONCEPTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The present work covers the fields of Information and Communication Technology and History of Education, aiming to present the interfaces between the mutual/Lancastrian method instituted in the Brazilian Imperial period, with the Distance Education (DE) model adopted today in Brazil. The methodology, with a qualitative basis, was structured from a systematic review of the literature and legal documents that were fundamental to weave the interfaces and reveal the approximations and differences between the two models of education. The analyses were structured in the light of the Vygotskian historical-cultural conception and sought to present new subsidies for the deepening in the field of studies on technologies and the history of Brazilian education. Based on the systematization of the documents, it was possible to describe, evidence and justify, in a critical way, the evolution and arrival of the Lancastrian method in Brazil, its main characteristics and the reasons why the Crown instituted it as mandatory in its provinces. It was also found that the historical and sociological motivations that impacted the growth of distance education in the country. Based on the surveys carried out, similar points were found between the foundations of both teaching modalities and the justifications for their implementation.