CONTROL AND DISCIPLINE IN THE TEACHING REGULATIONS OF REPUBLICAN PARÁ (1890-1896)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the process of disciplinarization related to the performance of the teacher in primary school in Pará, between the years 1890 and 1896, through the identification of how the teacher was represented in the educational legislation and the legal provisions that regulated both the control and the inspection of the teaching action in the period studied. The theoretical framework is composed of authors such as Meneghetti and Sampaio, Napolitano, and Candiotto, who address the political, economic and social context of Brazil at the beginning of the twentieth century – a period in which a process of reurbanization was taking place in the city of Belém-PA – in addition to Foucault, whose thought presents the relations of disciplinary power intrinsic to the educational process. With regard to the methodological proposition, the present investigation makes use of documentary research. Therefore, the following sources of research are used: the Teaching Regulations, published between 1890 and 1896; the Report of Public Instruction, of 1890. In the course of the research, it was possible to verify that a relevant dimension of the management of public education in that period was the explicit attempt to impose a standard of behavior on teachers through regulatory devices that had this purpose.