POSITIVIST POLITICAL CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRAZIL (1889/1930)

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the influence of positivist principles on the education in Rio Grande do Sul during the First Republic, when they were the basis for the political and educational culture. In order to carry out the study, I have chosen some of the aspects that characterized public schools in Rio Grande do Sul as institutions which were part of an organization based on educational policies designed by positivist leaders. Those aspects highlight the relevance of the positivist political culture to understand education in Rio Grande do Sul. This historiographical study relies on primary sources which have undergone hermeneutical reading and a dialectical methodology.