ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the interests of the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro, encouraging and sponsoring the implementation of the Commercial course at the School of Arts and Crafts of Rio de Janeiro. Analyzing aspects involving the setting of public education throughout the nineteenth century, the paper moves through various aspects of society and economy in the second half of the nineteenth century which formed a new understanding of public education, in an attempt to link it to the interests of production, wealth of the country and at the same time encouraging vocational education as trainer and moralizing the working class. Therefore, the paper discusses some historical aspects that have contributed to the defense of business education, as a part of professional training of workers in trade by the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro in the late eighteen hundreds.
Keywords:
Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro; School of Arts and Crafts of Rio de Janeiro; Commercial Education; Public Instruction; Nineteenth century.