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Professional education. Industrial Education Directorate. Technical education.
The object of this thesis is to study the Directorate of Industrial Education and its relevance to the organisation of industrial education. Our thesis argues that the Directorate of Industrial Education organised industrial education in Brazil between 1931 and 1959, by linking networks of sociability, ideas and political culture. In order to prove this hypothesis, our central problem is: What were the actions of the Directorate of Industrial Education in the period from 1931 to 1959 to organise Industrial Education? And as secondary issues: How was the Industrial Education Directorate created and what were its phases? What was the network of sociability established between engineer educators and other political agents around the Directorate of Professional Education? How did the actions of the Directorate of Industrial Education contribute to the organisation and construction of policies for industrial education? As far as the method is concerned, we used Ginzburg's (1989) indicative method and Ragazzini's (2001) understanding of "sources for the history of schools and education". The data was collected by means of bibliographical research and analyses of documents collected from virtual archives. The main sources are legislative texts, available digitally through the Chamber of Deputies collection. But they also include Ministerial Reports, Presidential Messages and periodicals in the collections of the Hemeroteca Digital (BNDigital) and the Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC), such as the Gustavo Capanema collection. This work is based on the following theoretical references: Ciavatta (2015, 2019) on the History of Professional Education. Medeiros Neta and Ciavatta (2020) on the constitution of the field of the History of Professional Education, Bourdieu (1989) on the notion of the legal field, legal authority and symbolic violence, Berstein (1998) on political culture and Rémond (2003) on Political History. By analysing the sources, we can see that the creation of the Apprenticeship Schools and the Remodelling Service were important for the creation of the body that would become the Directorate of Industrial Education. Since its creation, this body has gone through different phases and restructurings; the network of intellectual sociability was highly relevant to the actions of the Directorate of Industrial Education, which determined the organisation of industrial education based on ideas of organisation and training that materialised in the construction of plans and laws.