Abstract
In this text we present some results of research, inscribed in the field of history of education, limited to the crossing of the fields of political and judicial history and the curricular thought, which sought to map a secondary school configuration in speeches, projected on the notions of culture, human formation and good education. This projection has taken as sources a set of dissertations produced on secondary education by / in the Studies and Research Groups, School Culture Observatory (UFMS) and History of Education (UFMG), in the period from 1999 to 2010. Such sources are taken in the perspective to comparatively investigate how official documents of secondary education (Laws, Decrees, Ordinances and others), published from 1930 to 1960, were treated, observed and/or analyzed. In this framework, this research is anchored on the hypothesis that the studies on secondary education, produced by the dissertations and theses, in comparison, on the one hand, can register processes of cultural and ideological relativism promoting new ways of understanding the appropriation of the national and local legal documents. On the other hand, by the need to demystify the notions of culture, human formation and patriotic consciousness that, when incorporated into the documents, seem to be just a singular version founded in the process of "universalization" of this level of education.
Keywords:
history of secondary education; political and judicial History; curriculum studies