Traces of the creation of the first mathematics professor education course in Alto Paranaíba, Minas Gerais: a look from the Documenta Magazine

Abstract

In this article we present initial results of a project under development whose objective is to map movements for the creation of the first courses that trained mathematics teachers in the Alto do Paranaíba region, Minas Gerais. As the main source, we have requests for the creation, conversion and / or recognition of courses that trained mathematics teachers, from federal or private public institutions, published in Documenta magazine - monthly publication of the Federal Council of Education, however, we emphasize that other sources were also used. Theoretical-methodological inspirations are based on the line / project Mapping the training and performance of mathematics teachers in Brazil, from the research group Grupo História Oral e Educação Educação, Ghoem. For this text, we brought results from the first course that took place in this region, especially in the city of Patos de Minas. Among them, we printed a discussion covering the curriculum of the first mathematics teacher training course, the list of the first teachers, evidence of the creation of the first private Faculty and other teacher training courses, of the higher education movement in that city and evidence of aid to the creation of this Catholic Church movement. We point out that this study is admittedly historiographic and falls within the field of the History of Brazilian Education, more specifically in the History of Mathematical Education in Brazil.