THE SERTÕES AND THE MEB: the process of civilizing the sertanejo man through the educational work of the MEB/Caicó System (1963-1974)
MEB; Sertão; Illiteracy; Civility; Development.
The dissertation presented consists of analyzing the process of civilizing the man of the Sertão do Seridó through the educational work developed by MEB/Sistema Caicó and by the Emissora de Educação Rural de Caicó. With this, we investigated, through the traces left by the MEB documentation, the development of the educational work narrated by the reports, radio programs schedules, by the studies of areas presented by the documentation during the decades from 1963 to 1974, as well as perceiving the actions of the MEB Caicó System in the fight against illiteracy and the applicability of this educational process for the development of the country in agreement with the Federal Government. The analysis will be guided by the concepts of Civility by Nobert Elias (1994) and Conscientização by Paulo Freire (2001). Such references allowed walking through the understanding of the educational process of the MEB in the sertões of the Seridó reported in its documentation of how the sertanejo should behave in the face of issues related to their health, education, politics, economics and evangelization. The methodology used is qualitative as well as discourse analysis, which will be carried out through readings of newspapers, ichnographic material, letters, official documents of the MEB / Caicó System, its teaching material, reports, schedule of the subjects addressed by the speaker teachers. produced by the MEB, available at the LABORDOC of CERES Caicó, another part of the material under the custody of the Diocesan College of Caicó (CDS), as well as by Cáritas Diocesana de Caicó.