Ceará colonial – primórdios de um projeto formativo civilizador

Abstract

There are very few studies in existence concerning Ceará in its colonial stage. There even less accounts registered and analysis's made of educational experiences in that period. This work puts together extracts from historical documents in an effort to systematize some references that may help us to understand the way education was linked to a European civilization project that crushed the cultural aspirations of our people. The vagueness imposed by the Portuguese, not only in economic projects but also in education and cultural ones, has left its mark on our incipient educational system which was built of the jesuits and the early reformes of the Empire.