A history of reading and writing teaching practices in teachers’ and students’ autobiographical production in Brazil (1870-1970)

Abstract

The text analyse the ways of appropriation of teachers’ and students’ school life experiences described in literary and memorialistic writings. In this investigation, we discuss the nature of information reconstructed in memorialistic and fictional texts and point out the possibility to know, through these sources, the ways in which people build the senses of their school life experiences and how these are constructed in different moments of life. The research analyses both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. In these sources, we often find references to reading and writing teaching practices. Evidently, these references can be better understood by the History of School and the analysis of other social practices, but it is also necessary to observe that references to school life experiences, and, especially, the references on learning how to read and write are numerous in autobiographical sources.