Institutionalization of education in the south of Mato Grosso: the parochial school “Vicente Pallotti” (1950-1974)

Abstract

The work socializes the results of a completed research that analyzed the process of institutionalization of education, carried in the municipality of Fatima the south, in the south of Mato Grosso, taking into account the power games of forces involved, through an approximation of the operation of the first school created in the municipality, the Parish School Vicente Pallotti. The time cut adopted begins in 1950 with the process of institutionalization and ends in 1974 when the school becomes part of the state network. Documentary, oral and imagery sources were used in the research. As a theoretical support, productions inscribed in the foucaultian perspective were used, as well as studies on the privileged theme. We conclude that the appearance of the school institution in the municipality had a direct relation with the process of colonization of the Region and that the institutionalization of education in that place and historical moment was due to the initiative of the Church, with the arrival of the Pallotine priests, remaining under its management even after the school becomes part of the State Education Network and enrolls in discourses that take education as a condition for the development and progress of the Region and the nation.