The Protagonism of the National Technical School in Teacher Education: what monuments and mathematics say

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the National Technical School (ETN) in its protagonism in the formation of teachers for Technical Education and some of the ideas that circulated at the time, from its origins to the period that culminated in the operation of ETN. For this discussion, the following research sources were used: the architectural monument, the former headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Health (MES), documents from the School’s archive, and the archive of the Casa Museu de Villa-Lobos, the CBAI Bulletins, the textbook Mathematics and the work translated by CBAI Psicologia para Profesores do ensino industrial. Analyzing these Documents / Monuments allowed to verify some elements of these circulating ideas: eugenics, nationalism, and the purpose of Mathematics.