THE EXPERIENCES OF TRAINING PRACTICES IN AN AMERICAN SCHOOL IN THE BACWOODS
Ponte Nova Institute; Education; Culture.
This study addresses the installation of the Ponte Nova Institute (IPN), in a time frame that covers the period 1940/1960 and brings as a central question: how did the development of the IPN and its activities take place? Our hypothesis points to the understanding that, in addition to its formative aspect, the IPN took on an ideological, political and behavioral modeling bias in the life of each countrymen who lived there and this interfered in their daily actions so that they became "citizens”. As more general objectives, we envision the possibility of unveiling contexts, facts, events and characters that appear in the subject's formation process, a chance to better understand the educational situation as a formative device present in the target school and still. The validity of the research lies in dealing with specific peculiarities and complexities related to the interference of American subjects in the implementation of such practices, in a social space without a tradition of direct action by public authorities in the construction of social goods. To end the intentions of this study and meet the desire to search for answers to the motivating question, we chose to work with descriptive research, having social history as a background. Finally, we understand that the IPN assumed the role of modeling behavior and knowledge in the countryside space, based on an educational notion that was based on Protestant ethical and aesthetic standards, making use of educational activities and activities that contributed to the shaping of the subject.