Lourenço Filho e os projetos de lei orgânica do ensino primário (1938 – 1946)

Abstract

The work has as general theme the primary education in the Vargas government (1930-1945). Our guiding principle is the Organic Law Project of Primary Education, more precisely, the third one that was approved as the Organic Law of Primary Education (LOEP) in 1946, and also the educational policies applied at the material time and the funds that were created in order to fund the primary school. The study period was extended until 1946, focusing on the period between 1938 and 1946. Since Lourenço Filho entry into office in 1938 as Director of the National Institute of Pedagogical Studies (INEP), and due to three attempts to approval of the Draft has been submitted in 1939 1943 and 1944, respectively, and the approval of the Organic Law of Primary Education (LOEP) has been carried out in January 1946, this period has become relevant to our research and work. Also knowing that the referred law was approved on the authorship of Lourenço Filho and that he was an invigorating leader, we also seek to understand how he came at the the Vargas government and how the educator's thinking contributed to the development and approval of the law in question. It is also our goal to have a quick look at the contributions of the Organic Law of primary school, after its approval in 1946, in the scenario of Brazilian education.