THE TEACHERS AND THE SCHOOL: Power relation on the maranhense educational field

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the historical nature of power relations - from the perspectiveFoucaultians - within the public school's primary capital of Maranhão, in the first decade of thetwentieth century. In this analysis, the object of study has been controversy over the books of theModel School Benedito Leite, especially the writings Rudimentary primer (1908), involving BarbosaGodoy, author of the booklet and director of the Normal and Model Schools, and Antonio Lobo,Inspector  Public Instruction in 1911. As background to the controversy, highlights the struggle forpower - understood as true discourse - in the educational field, fought between Lobo and Godoithrough his speeches materialized in the newspaper Diario do Maranhão. Materialized in the speechesof the controversial articles published in the Diario do Maranhão showed an intense power struggle inthe field of educational capital of Maranhão, which had as its object of desire legitimate speech.