ABSTRACT
The article aims to analyze the memories of rural teachers who worked at Escola Aníbal Magni, in the community of Arroio Grande, in the small municipality of Selbach, located in the north of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, between 1964 and 1985, in the middle of the Dictatorship Civil-Military. The research has Memory as a theoretical assumption and uses the methodology of Oral History. Memory assumes a decisive role, since, in addition to being a device of history, it is, by human primacy, a property of preserving certain information. To constitute this study, using the interview as a methodological strategy, we listened to ten teachers who offered their life stories involving themselves both in the thematic focus, teaching memories, as well as in what involves it: the very existence. Memories allow visibility to the school’s daily life, its spaces and times, showing marks of rural schools in the context of the Civil-Military Dictatorship. The most collaborative proportion present in rural communities is mentioned by the teachers, represented by the most collective celebrations, festivities and social relations.
Keywords:
Teachers memories; Rural school; Oral History; Civil-Military Dictatorship