The equivalence of high schools to national gymnasium in the first republic: the case of the Diocesan College of Paraiba

• Main Author: Wojciech Andrzej Kulesza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de História da Educação 2011-12-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de História da Educação
• Subjects: Ensino Secundário; Laicismo; Igreja Católica; Instituições Escolares; Política Educacional
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38498

Since the foundation of the College of Pedro II in 1838 successive legislators tried to take it as a model, not only for the schools of Rio de Janeiro but for the whole Brazilian high school. Gradually the equalization to this institution was the mechanism encountered by the government to make uniform secondary education throughout the country. With the republican laicization, the Catholic Church also begins to consider useful this mechanism to sanction officially the studies in their schools. This work, based in the documentation founded in Brazilian National Archive, focused the institution of definitive equivalence of the Diocesan College of Paraiba to the Gymnasium National in 1908.