Press, First Republic and civilization project in research on the history of Education

• Main Authors: Sandra do Rocio Ferreira Leal, Maria Isabel Moura Nascimento
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa 2019-09-01
• Series: Práxis Educativa
• Subjects: Press.; First Republic.; Civilization Project.
• Online Access: https://www.revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/12742/209209211541

This paper analyzes doctoral dissertations and master’s theses that used the press as a primary source and/or as an object of analysis, whose temporal cutoff included the first decade of the First Republic and the liberal civilizing project of that period. This research used the Sucupira Plataform in 2017 in all the programs of Graduate studies in Education, line of research History of the Education. The results point out that the press was an important means to disseminate the liberal ideal in initiatives that proposed civilization projects for the republican Brazil. In addition, it identifies themes and the most used theoretical-methodological approaches in research about press in the beginning of the First Republic, in the area of History of Education, highlighting the results found.