Comparative History of Secondary Education: renewal of historiography by comparisons, transitions, massifications and translations

Abstract

This dossier is anchored in results organized by the research project Ensino Secundário no Brasil em Perspectiva Histórica e Comparada (1942-1961) [Secondary Education in Brazil in a Historical and Comparative Perspective (1942-1961)],  whose results were gained through focusing on the implantation, expansion, and organization processes of Secondary Education in public and private institutions, distributed by Brazilian states, in the period from 1931 (Francisco Campos Reform) to 1971 (Law 5692 of 1971).  It is also based on projections guided by the research project Por Uma Outra Historiografia do Ensino Secundário (1931 to 1961) [For Another Historiography of Secondary Education (1931 to 1961)], using comparative studies as a tool for construction. Both projects are guided by the perspective of other writings regarding the perceptions of displacements, transformations, and construction of models and typologies, as well as the identification of continuities and discontinuities and similarities and differences in the history of different “regionalized or state-based” secondary education realities.