O desenho como matéria em Minas Gerais nas décadas de 1940 e 1950

Abstract

This dissertation historically studies the presence of Design as primary school subject matter. It was taken as the guiding question of the study: what are the finities of the drawing matter read in the official national and mining directives of the 1940-1950 decades? In the 1940s and 1950s, the teaching is governed by the Organic Law of Primary Education of 1946. The study is situated in the field of History of Mathematics Education, taking as theoretical-methodological references contributions from Cultural History, and considering school culture and disciplines or subjects as historical objects. In addition to the Organic Law for Primary Education, the Programs in Experience of Minas Gerais, published in the 1940s and republished until 1961, were examined. These programs brought the Integrated Design to teaching areas, presented as an auxiliary material, which appears as an activity of expression, observation and intuition. It assumes characteristics of a discipline based on the perspective of rudiments. By these considerations, it begins to constitute a teaching consubstantiated with the character of initiation to the school knowledge; with nothing to do with reference knowledge. Targeted at the primary education objectives, it was aligned with the school subjects constituting this school year - arithmetic, geometry, mother tongue, history and geography, science and hygiene