A CENTRALIDADE ESPACIAL DA EDUCAÇÃO ESCOLAR NA DÉCADA DE 1930: O COLEGIO PEDRO II E O CENTRO DO RIO DE JANEIRO

Abstract

This article aims to show how education began to gain prominence, especially i nthe 1930s, based on two fundamental phenomena : the School Architecture Exhibition and the National Education Crusade movement. Based on a multiscale analysis, it becomes possible to articulate the two phenomena in a spatial and geographic debate. While school architecture emphasizes the space of the school, the Crusade seeks to establish itself as a national movement, dotting the Brazilian territory with schools to teache the population to read and write.

Changing, once again, the geographic scale of analysis, we arrive at Colégio Pedro II, an institution located in the central area of the city of Rio de Janeiro, former Federal District, seeking to analyze it from a spatializing dimension, mainly from the space-spatiality-centrality tripod. The idea of centrality ends up manifesting itself in different ways, which was shown based on the methodology adopted for this article : the analysis of the newspaper A Noite and the Book of Terms of Colégio Pedro II, equivalent to the current Book of Enrollments, are privileged documents that hold much about the spatial and geographical debate.