Nw17 hrc ecer 2011

Elementary educational institutions in Portugal:making memory of Portuguese primary school(s)

Helena Ribeiro de Castro

hribeiro.castro@gmail.com

Elementary educational institutions in Portugal : between public and private

• An institutional research project:

4 Schools of Education

• Almada• Viseu• Gaia• Macedo de Cavaleiros

• To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of (the) School(s) and the evolution of primary / elementary education in Portugal;• To discuss the significance of private / public

initiative in the evolution of school and scholar education from the last third of the XIXth century.

Main goals:

• To survey the institutions of basic education available or disabled, and even already missing, starting by the geographical areas of influence of each of the 4 Schools of Education;

• To map the elementary educational institutions surveyed;

• To characterize each of the institutions surveyed from architectural, ideological, pedagogical and functional point of view, as well as the using of educational/cultural material eventually found in each one;

• To draw up biographies of the institutions surveyed.

Specific objectives:

• To introduce undergraduate students in the practice of research activities in the course of their training;

• To encourage researching in the profession of educator/ teacher;

• To offer the students opportunities to work on articles, poster presentations and/or papers in conferences or seminars presenting the results of their own research under the guidance of their professors;

Underlying objectives:

• To provide data for graduate students’ research as well as for other research projects held either by the institution’s professors or by researchers from the institutions with protocols with the project.

Underlying objectives:

• Database;

• Map;

• Archive of the cultural material and oral histories;

• Virtual museum;

• Articles, posters, papers…

Research produts:

Partnerships:

Institute of Education, University of LisbonUniversity of Oporto

Municipalities

Strategy for the 1st stage:

• Articulation with a Curricular Unit of the 2nd semester, Fieldwork, where the students are invited to develop research activities under their teachers’ supervising and guidance: survey, data gathering and organization, data analysis and interpretation.

Architecture

Strategy for the 1st stage:

• Master students were also challenged to join the research project as volunteers…

Assumptions: 1

• Elementary education in Portugal although compulsory since the mid XIX th century developed mainly because of private solicitude and initiative;

• Scholar education often happened in private houses or in some available rooms in private or public institutions;

Assumptions: 2

• Public school developed very slowly during the XIX th century with few concerns about schools’ buildings although there were already legal rules for the area and air capacity of the classrooms and strict instructions about school furniture´s design; some magazines have started to publish drawings of educational buildings;

• During late XIX th century and specially the XX th century there were several types of school buildings; some of them still exist;

Count Ferreira schoolsParedes, Portugal

Adães Bermudes Schools(late XIX th century, beginning of the XX th) Alcobaça, Portugal

Guarda, Portugal

Plan of centenarians – 1930/40Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal Santa Comba Dão, Portugal

Assumptions: 3

• Since 2005 we have been watching to the closing of many primary schools all over the country; they are being sold or converted.

Diário de Notícias, 15th August 2011

São Jordão, Alentejo, PortugalClosing…

• 2005 – 2 500 schools with less than 10 students;• 2010 – 701 schools with less than 21 students;• 2011 – 297 schools with less than 21 students.

3 498 in 6 years

Undergraduate students:

Almada, Museu da Cidade, Escola António José Gomes Ariana Manso, 2011

An Adães Bermudes School in Almada - Nowadays, the City Museum

Undergraduate students:

Almada, Museu da Cidade, Escola António José Gomes Ariana Manso, 2011

1929

1941

1954

Undergraduate students:

Escola Primária Feminina do Seixal, ~1890 - 1975Mário Barradas, Ricardo Mestre, Ana Azinhaes, Ana Correia, 2011

Undergraduate students:

Escola Primária Feminina do Seixal, ~1890 - 1975Mário Barradas, Ricardo Mestre, Ana Azinhaes, Ana Correia, 2011

1975 – the last group of students

Undergraduate students:

Escolas Primárias Feminina e Masculina da Lapa, Lisboa, ~1890 - 1975Agostinho Makumuena, Ambrósio Moisés, 2011

School 72, Lisbon - 2011

School 18, Lisbon - 2011

Undergraduate students:

Escolas Primárias Feminina e Masculina da Lapa, Lisboa, ~1890 - 1975Agostinho Makumuena, Ambrósio Moisés, 2011

Undergraduate students:

Escolas Primárias Feminina e Masculina da Lapa, Lisboa, ~1890 - 1975Agostinho Makumuena, Ambrósio Moisés, 2011

Entrance to n.72

Entrance to n.18

Master students:

Évoramonte, Escola n.º 1 Ana Estorninho, 2011

Nowadays… an association

Master students:

Évoramonte, Escola n.º 2 Ana Estorninho, 2011

Nowadays… a mortuary

Master students:

Évoramonte, Escola n.º 3 Ana Estorninho, 2011

Nowadays… a family house

Master students:

Évoramonte, Escola n.º 4 Ana Estorninho, 2011

The actual school

School Museums, Portugal