ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this paper was to reconstitute school practices based on an inventory of early primary reading books and booklets made in Portugal and Brazil between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The hypothesis that led this research was that the books that taught reading and writing - besides teaching knowledge, perhaps even before teaching knowledge - were intended to teach codes of good behavior. This work proposes to verify, through the study of reading manualsin Portugal and Brazil, how this civilizational dimension intrinsic to schooling appeared in textual records. For that, there shall be a theoretical dialogue with the educational literature regarding textbooks, and the methodology adopted is documentary research, specifically focused on the study of school books.
Keywords:
Primary school; Education history; Rite; Textbook; School compendiums