This paper discusses the use of student newspapers as a source for studies in history of education, as well as the importance of reading school newspaper. Focuses on the analysis of two newspapers of catholic secondary schools and secular of Pelotas/RS: Ecos Gonzagueanos and Estudante. In investigations that address cultural practices, their subjects and their production, student newspapers are considered potential elements for the seizure of the practices, discourses and daily life at school. You can see the values, customs and interests that oriented the relationships of young students as well as the reflections of the appropriations made from the school culture of the institution to which they were connected.
student newspapers; historical sources; secondary education; secular and catholic education