Francisco Campos’ reform and the national modernization of the secondary school

Abstract

This work defends that the called “Francisco Campos Reform” (1931) established, at the national level, the modernization of Brazilian secondary school. This brought many schooling strategies like the seriated curriculum, the obligatory attendance from students, the imposition of a detailed and regular system for evaluation and the restructuration of the federal sytem of inspection . This way, the school culture defined by the reform leaded by the Minister of Education Francisco Campos aimed to produce a bourgeois habitus on the secondary students, thrugh global education and the pratice of discipline and self-government.