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History of education. Institution of confessional education. School Culture.
The proposal of this study is the analysis of the history of Our Lady of Victories College in Assú, Rio Grande do Norte, from its foundation on March 9, 1927, extending until 1947, a period that records the first two decades of its operation. The objective is to understand how the school culture of such an institution was constituted throughout its first years of existence. In order to do so, the institution's documents, annual reports, minutes, journals and books of the period are analyzed, being guided by the studies of Certeau (2001), Frago (1995), Magalhães (2005) and Julia (2001). Considering the discussion about an educational institution, the school culture emerges as a central category of analysis, which guided the choice of the specific categories of the study: The first female teachers, The School Festivals and The Daily School. The College Our Lady of the Wins was idealized in 1922 by the local Catholic Church and intellectuals of the time, who wanted an education for girls with bases in the catholic precepts. The installation of the College represented a relevant landmark for the city of Assú as an institution that was initially intended for women's education, with the aim of inserting girls into literate, civic and domestic culture, according to the precepts of the time for their formation. To assume the responsibility for its operation was in charge of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Divine Love, coming from Vienna / Austria. We show that the school culture produced in the interior of the College was a vital element for the work of evangelization and to meet the aspirations of the elite as well as of the Catholic Church. For formative purposes they envisioned the formation of good mothers, exemplary educators and future servants of the motherland. The reconstitution of the historical identity of this institution brings a contribution to the configuration of the history of school education norte-rio-grandense.