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Rio Grande do Norte. Political culture. School Groups. Imaginary toponym.
In this work, which has as its theme political cultures and toponymies of school groups and as toponymic imaginary objects of the school groups of Rio Grande do Norte from 1907 to 1947, we aim to analyze how the political culture that prevailed in each historical moment can determine the definition of the imaginary ones related to the denominations of those school institutions. In this way, we were able to defend the thesis that the political culture entangled in the public education system was determinant for the definition of the imaginary (s) relative to the toponymy of the school groups of Rio Grande do Norte in the period from 1907 to 1947. The documentary corpus for the study of toponymic imaginaries is composed of Brazilian Constitutions, messages of presidents, messages of governors, reports of federal interveners, federal, state and municipal educational legislation, Proceedings of the First National Conference of Education, covenants national, state, and municipal levels, reports of public education principals, school statistics, newspaper articles, and photographs. For the scrutiny of the sources, the study is based primarily on the theoretical-methodological analyzes and interpretations based on René Rémond and Serge Berstein for the understanding of political cultures in Carlos Roberto Jamil Cury regarding the understanding of federalism in Cornelius Castoriadis to problematize the imaginary and the magma toponymic of the school groups, in Júlio Aróstegui and Jörn Rüsen for the use of the method of historical research and in Maria Dick with regard to the application of the taxonomic model used to qualify the toponyms. Thus, we locate the toponymic imaginaries of school groups based on family organization, local politics, national history and the history of education in Rio Grande do Norte, determined by the political cultures that prevailed in each historical time recorded in the period from 1907 to 1947.