CIRCULATION OF IDEAS IN BRAZIL

education as regeneration of a nation

Abstract

In this article, the aim is to identify the existing relationship between ideas circulating at the times of the Empire and during the First Republic in Brazil, with the thoughts of João Pereira de Castro Pinto before he was elected governor of the state of Parahyba in 1912 and the education policy transformations taking place in the context of that period. In order to better understand these themes, we set off from of some issues that turned out to be the background for this research: the establishment of the Republic and national educational policy. By applying a hermeneutic approach, since we understand that, in research in history, meaning originates from the analysis of documents, which is always open to reinterpretations, depending on the variables such as the context in which a document was produced and the place that historian occupies. Our remarks show how the circulation of ideas, which passes through the discourse of various proponents, comes to be an embodied Parahyba.