PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PROVINCE OF GRÃO PARÁ IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ADDITIONAL ACT OF 1834
Public instruction. Pará. Additional Act.
This research analyzes the situation of public instruction in the Province of Grão Pará, after the 1834 Additional Act and until its interpretation in 1840, considering the debate regarding what the Additional Act represented for public education in Imperial Brazil at the time. The sources selected for that effect are documental in nature, consisting of reports by the presidents of the Province of Grão Pará and the work “Chorographic essays about the province of Pará”, by Antônio Ladislau Monteiro Baena. Consists of historical research whose theoretical and methodological basis is Historical-Dialectical Materialism and whose understanding of the historical process is anchored on the contradictions and class struggles; from historical-critical pedagogy we have the contribution regarding how education should be understood in its relationship with the current mode of production in each society. In this sense, public instruction in the Province of Grão Pará will be perceived as a product of history, resulting from the relationship between humans and their current mode of production. We consider, therefore, the nature of Brazilian economy, agricultural and exporter, relying on slave labor, as well as the particular characteristics of the Province of Grão Pará, as responsible for how public instruction will be seen and implemented.