The School Desks: the research's object about the history of material culture of Santa Catarina's schools. The aim of this article is to present some results related to this research and to identify some aspects that characterize this furniture at the begining of the organization of the primary schools in the state of Santa Catarina. The Research Sources: legislation, teachers' opinions, reports of inspectors, incomes, besides icons of this period. The advent of teaching writing in the schools is a watershed in the schools setting material and furniture. The reflection is based in references of methods of teaching considered articulators of presence or alteration of certain determinate furniture inside the classrooms. In theoretical terms, it has been mobilized a repertory that happens particularly in the history of education, schools' material culture and in references to beginnings of schooling, especially in Europe and the United States.
school desks; school's material culture; teaching methods; school furniture
