Memórias e narrativas da Escola Normal do Sagrado Coração em Ubajara – CE

Abstract

The presente research aimed to understand how was the foundation of the Escola Normal do Sagrado Coração of the city of Ubajara – CE, created by priest Francisco Tarcísio Melo. The provileged period was from 1966 to 1968, the period of creation and formation of the first group. Normal schools have a important role in teacher training since the first decades of the 19th century, in the case of Ceará since the beginning of the Normal School of Fortaleza in 1984. In this context, our work seeks to understand how the education of Ubajara was organized before the foundation of the normal school, how was the shcool forward deployment to a challenging environment, as the Brazilian aducational situation was undergoing significant changes arising from the implementation of the first Law of Directives and Bases of National Education – LDB n° 4024/61, as well as to present the work developed by the Priest Francisco Tarcísio Melo conducting the teaching establishment from its beginnings, as founder and articulator of the creation process. We privilege as first data source the oral narratives of four students of the first class of the school, their experiences in this period and the institution, placing them as subjects o four research, we also counted with the statements of two former teachers (one from the Escola Reunida and one from Grupo Escolar) who gave us subsides for the comprehension of the Ubajara scholl context, poiting out that we prefer to keep our informants anonymous, naming them as normalists N1, N2, N3 and N4. Therefore, this is a qualitative research, in which we use the historical- dewscriptive method. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews. We also have documentar basis coming from the school archives, minutes books from Ubajara city hall, tomb book from the parish of São José de Ubajara, photos and documents from the former normalists’ personal files. The results showed that the foundation of the Escola Normal do Sagrado Coração was of great relevance to Ubajara primary education, as it led to the formation of future teachers, it is also a milestone in secundary education Because there was no institution that offered completely. It also represented significant change for the less financially affluent youth who couldn’t leave the city to pursue their studies. Besides, it was shown how important the role played by priest Francisco Tarcísio Melo for the implementation and school survival.