Por entre as camadas do tempo, lembrar e esquecer em um arquivo de educação: o arquivo da Secretaria de Educação de Juiz de Fora 1938-1996

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate and analyze the constitution of the body which the Department of Education of Juiz de Fora archive is constituted, through its voices and silences, presences, and absences during the period from 1938 to 1996. For this analysis we have as a historic contribution the periods of time concerning the national situations related to the public policies of education and municipal administrations, conceivers of the public policies that are responsible for the education format in the city and for the own archive format which comes from it. As reference, we use authors from the School Culture such as Dominique Julia e Antonio Viñao and Brazilian authors which follow the same thoughts as Diana Vidal, Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho e Ana Cristina Mignot. Among the authors who discuss the memory in Brazil, we bring especially those who dialogue with the museum sciences field as Mário Chagas e Ulpiano Bezerra de Menezes. Still within the memory discussion, we seek theoretical support in Pierre Nora, Jacques Le Goff and M. Pollack. About the question of the memory in the public archives we present discussions within the field of archival brought up by José Maria Jardim. The paper proposes a reflection on the issue of the construction of educational space and memory in the lack of sources due to the high degree of destruction in school files and objects, witnesses of everyday life and everyday practices. Seeking to chart the file boxes of almost sixty-year history of the municipal education, the paper seeks to understand the operations of memory and its links with the established power on decisions about what to keep and what to delete in a educational manager body archive. Likewise, by charting this archive, this work aims to find the subjects in dialogue with the Department of Education over the municipal administration, as well as questioning the absent subjects in this dialogue.