The sermon, the hymn and an order of the day: memories of a rural isolated school

Abstract

In this paper we focus at the memories of subjects linked to an isolated rural school, located in the city of Bandeirantes, north of Paraná State.  The school modality studied in this work, the School Isolated, a public educational experience criated in decade 1930 and extincted in Paraná State in the 70 ́s, represents a restricted number in the set of rural primary schools in the northern state of Paraná. The main source of the study con- sists of interviews with a teacher and three former students of the School House Lourenço Ormenezze, mobilizing Oral History as a theoretical and methodological approach. The methodological procedures made it possible to create four narratives through the intervi- ews. The analysis of oral sources evidenced as main guiding criteria, such aspects: the demands of the teaching inspectors are considered and the ways in which these demands were (or not) referred by teachers or the community, with which a social-economic scenario is outlined. history about the teaching of the first letters in the countryside of the interior of the state of Paraná and, still, a walk on the physical structures of the school until entering the conceptions of the classroom. In this way, the results are the perception that the discourse advocating equal opportunities for urban and rural populations generally neglected the need to promote equal conditions so that the rural community could experience the opportunities that were promised to them: the right to education.