A escola de educação como eixo integrador da Universidade do Distrito Federal (1935-1939)

Abstract

his study investigates the first institutional space in the city of Rio de Janeiro to train teachers of all levels of education in university courses: the Universidade do Distrito Federal, which, despite its brief existence (1935-1939), had the purpose of training qualified teachers to work in the schools of the country’s capital. The realization of this proposal was based on the experience of the educator Anísio Teixeira, General Director of Public Instruction of the Federal District (1931-35), whose performance  represented the attempt to enable na ambitious educational Project, a true autonomous, public and integral teachinh system from primary school to university. The axis of such project materialized with the creation osna Education School that sought to integrate the different dimensions of teacher education, articuling theory and practice. However, the end of this experience in 1939 determined the return of the training of primary teachers in the course of the Instituto de Educação and normal schools, at secondary level, while secondary teachers acquired specific training carried out in four years at the Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia, the three being first entirely dedicated to specific studies, plus a fourth year of pedagogical complementation, taught by the Didactics Department. This model, known as the 3+1 scheme, became the hegemonic matrix of the courses that trained teachers for the secondary school.

Key words: Universidade do Distrito Federal. EducationSchool. teacher training.