Schooling process and the formation of a literary elite in Brazil: the case of the province of Sergipe D'El Rey

Abstract

The proposed article is part of a research that invests on the relationship between the teaching occupation and the literary elite in nineteenth-century Brazil. Overall, this study aims to identify and analyze the capital required to teach in the nineteenth century, with prime focus on secondary education, but not only. Takes as its locus of observation, for both the province of Sergipe d'El Rey. In this extract, the goal is to describe and analyze the formative processes and ways of entering the teaching occupation. To perform this task, a data collection was performed in Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary Armindo Guaraná, it was possible to identify one hundred thirty-four teachers, including three women. The procedure identified a group of professors in Sergipe, in the nineteenth century, with emphasis on Secondary Education, and analyze their trajectories training and experience in the field of teaching. It was found that it is possible to invest against the applicant thesis that the Brazilian elite of the nineteenth century was essentially formed by graduates in law. It was noticed that the distinctive trait effectively homogenizer and this was secondary education, in the form of full or preparatory notorious.