Opinions of Documenta Magazine: Mathematics teacher training courses in Brazil (1962 to 1979) in focus

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of requests for authorization, conversion or recognition of courses that trained mathematics teachers in Brazil, between 1962 and 1979, from federal or private public institutions, published in Documenta Magazine. This Magazine was published monthly, between 1962 and 2006, by the Federal Council of Education. This analysis is an excerpt from the study by Gomes (2019), which is part of the wide-ranging project Mapping the training and performance of mathematics teachers in Brazil, from the Grupo História Oral e Educação Matemática, Ghoem. To analyze these opinions Gomes (2019) mobilized the reference of Depth Hermeneutics, proposed by Jonh. B. Thompson. We bring to the academic debate, declared intentions to train teachers, justifications of the counselors, insertions of geographic regions in the mapping and courses in their intention to be, even though many of them have not been created, this being our main contribution to the History of Education Mathematics.