TEACHING EXPERIENCES AND POLITICAL CULTURES: THE TEACHER OF FIRST LETTERS JOÃO BAPTISTA BRANDÃO DE PROENÇA (5TH COMARCA DA PROVÍNCIA DE SÃO PAULO/PROVÍNCIA DO PARANÁ - 1830-1860)

Abstract

This article discusses the historical experiences of a teacher of first letters in Curitiba between 1830s and 1860s in order to realize the ways in which João Baptista Brandão de Proença became a primary teacher, public servant and intellectual. In a period marked by orality and scarcity of teachers' training institutions, track his trajectory, as a methodological approach, allows understanding teaching experience as a construction intertwining circulation of individuals in different social spaces and accumulation of a pedagogical, legal, political and administrative repertory. “Normal exceptional” personage, as Carlo Ginzburg consider (2007, p. 277), João Baptista Brandão de Proença offers clues to the mishaps suffered and astuteness employed by the early nineteenth-century teachers in the production of teaching as a craft.

Keywords:
teaching experience; public education; political cultures