Between the Memories and Stories of Schools at Rio Grande do Sul: From the Deutscher Hilfsverein to Farroupilha School (1858-2008)

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125 years of German educational action in Porto Alegre

Farroupilha, one of the most traditional schools in Porto Alegre (RS), derives from the support of the foundation of Deutscher Hilfsverein (German Benevolent Society) in 1858. The school was established in 1886 on the Capital Evangelic Community premises under the name of Knabenschule (Boys’ School) des Deutschen Hilfsverein. To rediscover the school routines and practices developed over more than 125 years at that learning facility, in 2008, Professor Maria Helena Camara Bastos reunited professors from PUCRS, UFRGS, and Unisinos to create the Research Group Between the Memories and Stories of Schools at Rio Grande do Sul: From the Deutscher Hilfsverein to Farroupilha School (1858-2008).

The initial studies included School documents: a life in copybooks project, which analyzed the mandatory writing assignments included in the school copybooks of a female first grader in the 1950s. The aim of this project was to show that the school perceptions and educational values are reflected in such documents.

The following topics, and others, are currently under development: the Farroupilha School Students Association press; a digital cataloging of the School Memorial collection; educational practices as reflected in the copybooks of elementary school students; the Deutscher Hilfsverein’s kindergarten (1911-1929); the Trade Technical School (1950-1962); school architecture; first communion at the Farroupilha School (1940s-1950s); analysis of the reports by federal educational inspectors; the history of the elementary school class of 1957; epistolary writing by first graders (1948-1966); and the digitization of the photographic collection of teachers and students until 1970.

This research project, approved by the CNPq for the period from 2011 to 2015, includes the schoolteachers and undergraduate grant holders, master’s and doctoral students, and professors/ researchers.