Instituto de Educação Assis Brasil: acervo e saberes para ensinar Matemática no Curso Normal (1962-1971)

Abstract

This dissertation is linked to the Graduate Program in Mathematics Education (PPGEMAT), at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), and aims to investigate the knowledge to teach related to Mathematics present in the Normal Course of the Instituto de Educação Assis Brasil ( IEAB), in the city of Pelotas, in the period from 1962 to 1971. The starting point of the research was the guard space of the Education Institute, founded on February 13, 1929, as the Complementary School of Pelotas, and its purpose was to train normal students. . I defend the importance of conservation of school collections as well as the possibilities they present to researchers in the History of Education, I narrate the search for documents and the process of transforming sources. I will address the studies on the knowledge to teach developed by the Research Team in History of Education Sciences (ERHISE) of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and in the studies of Wagner Valente, which focuses on the knowledge to teach linked to the Mathematics present in the training of primary teachers in Brazil. The research indicated that the knowledge to teach related to Mathematics in the formation of Normalists was directly related to the suggestions of how to teach, in the step by step, in the methodology of the degree of difficulties going from easy to difficult, in the instruction of sewing and the use of concrete materials and games, in the technique of fixing and verifying learning, that is, they were the tools of his work used to teach.