Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SANDRA HERSZKOWICZ FRANKFURT.pdf: 1762948 bytes, checksum: 203a0e286ed4b6f94a4e098c4854667c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work aims to investigate the practices of the Normal School celebrations in the city of Pirassununga, in the period between 30 's and 50 's decades of the last century. The intent is to analyze the practices of the school celebrations as one of the instruments of the educational career and of the republican social memory. For so much, take as sources, Cardim's Manual (1916), a anthem book found in the library of the school in Pirassununga, the legislation on the school celebrations, the magazines: Educação (1927-1930), Escola Nova (1930-1931), Educação (1931-1932), Revista de Educação (1933-1944) and Educação (1945-1961), besides the references on the subject in the newspaper O Movimento . To these sources, interviews with former- teachers of the Normal School of Pirassununga are added , who studied during the period that comprehends the research and a notebook produced in the Teaching Practice discipline for one of the former-teacher interviewee. To accomplish the proposed analysis, the celebrations of the Normal School of Pirassununga, carrying itself in counts the learning of the educational exercise, they were classified in celebrations of the school success and celebration to learn to do with . It verified that at Normal School celebrations of Pirassununga, besides composing the educational professional culture, they constitute the social memory of the city / Neste trabalho, objetiva-se investigar as práticas das festas da Escola Normal de Pirassununga, entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950. O intento é analisar as práticas das festas escolares como um dos instrumentos da profissão docente e da memória social republicana. Para tanto, toma-se como fontes o manual de Cardim (1916), um hinário encontrado na biblioteca da Escola, a legislação sobre as festas escolares, as revistas: Educação (1927-1930), Escola Nova (1930-1931), Educação (1931-1932), Revista de Educação (1933-1944) e revista Educação (1945-1961), além das referências sobre o assunto no Jornal O Movimento . A essas fontes, somam-se entrevistas com ex-normalistas da Escola Normal de Pirassununga que estudaram durante o período que compreende a pesquisa e um caderno produzido na disciplina Prática de Ensino por uma das ex-normalistas entrevistada. Para realizar a análise proposta, as festas da Escola Normal de Pirassununga, levando-se em conta o aprendizado do exercício docente, foram classificadas em festas do sucesso escolar e festas para aprender a fazer com . Constatou-se que as festas na Escola Normal de Pirassununga, além de comporem a cultura profissional docente, constituem a memória social da cidade

In analyzing the 1989 bicentennial in Paris, my point of departure has been that the French government, faced with the cool reception to the memory of the Revolution of 1789, was trying to make revolutionary heritage relevant to contemporary concerns, by using allegorical techniques of spatializing and visualizing history while consequently (yet paradoxically, since it ran against their intentions) effecting a smooth passage for this heritage into the world of commodity and spectacle. To analyze this dilemma, I investigated the mechanisms of representation and the tension between spectacle and politically engaged imagery. Drawing from the work of Water Benjamin, the thesis proposed to use allegory as a mode of political criticism and redemptive interpretation. The analysis of the programming of events, for example, revealed that it contained a moral tale of sacrifice, and praised the power of the memory of the Revolution to form a community, not based on ethnicity or shared history but on shared ideals. The analysis of the use of collage in the Bastille Day Parade revealed that it reworked Republican notions of ‘fraternity in a post-colonial era to reflect contemporary discussions of métissage and take a position on its relationship to democracy. By looking at this commemoration allegorically, the double meanings inscribed in the bicentennial program, exhibits, monuments and parade can be unpacked. But the allegorical critique is violent, it does not carefully excavate layers of meaning through a gentle and constructive hermeneutic circle, it requires that the objects that are being contemplated be in fragments. As the allegorist reassembles the fragments into new meaningful constellations, the constructions remain open, driven by the impossibility of recovering what has been lost, always pointing to the instability of meaning. The analysis of the commemoration recognized that commodification and spectacularisation happen, but through reversal it also showed that the 1989 bicentennial draws from a constantly evolving relationship to memory which allows for investment on the part of the public. Because the commemoration is a powerful form of visualizing and spatializing history that occurs in public spaces, many provocative images were taken up by the press and written about, which ultimately reconfigured present-day discussions about democracy and citizenship.

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O mistério como ponto de partida e o encantamento como um dos fios condutores movem a investigação em seus aspectos mitológicos, ritualísticos e na experimentação de um fazer fotográfico expandido. O objetivo central é o desenvolvimento de uma poética visual contemporânea, buscando evocar elementos da energia desse encantamento vivenciado em muitas celebrações,através da pesquisa em fotografia e da utilização de novos materiais e suportes para impressão e projeção. A Imagem foi considerada como proposta investigativa capaz de revelar e estabelecer elos entre elementos simbólicos submersos em expressões do imaginário. Do ponto de vista conceitual adota-se uma abordagem compreensiva para os eventos ligados ao tema, onde o pesquisador está presente no sentido de compreender, participar, não de classificar, inspirada em Michel Maffesoli, e, também, para o processo criativo, onde o objeto é visto como a força vital que conduz a pesquisa do ponto de vista operacional. Para compor esta abordagem, o embasamento teórico, abrangendo os campos do Imaginário, da Fotografia e dos Processos Criativos, se constituiu de autores tais como: Gilbert Durand, Luigi Pareyson, Cecília Salles, Roland Barthes, e, Brissac Peixoto, entre outros. Dentre os artistas contemporâneos visitados ressalta-se a fotógrafa Cláudia Andujar que decifra povos e mitos através de luzes. / Salvador

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis addresses the composition of the indentities through the performances produced in the celebrations of chapel in the town of Silveira Martins, located into the Fourth Colony of Italian Imigration in the Rio Grande do Sul. Celebration of chapel is an expression that denote into the own group events that happen in communities from the rural zone, place that have just a space like a little church and a hall, these events happen to honor the patron saint from this comunity. Spaces like these became privilege for the research becouse of limitation of his territory made by italians immigrants during the XIX century, combined to the growth of the memories to rebuild a colonial past and based in a mythical origin. The quest of this work is to map the celebrations of chapel and then take for the analysis five of them, also other two festive events, with the intention to make a local festive table contemplating the daily dimension. Is understood that a festive moment, that symbolize and enlarge the elements of the daily, become a product of it. The fundamentations for this research is based on the discussions about the identity, using mainly concepts about the ethnic and cultural identity contemplating studies about the identity quest front the globalization process. The analysis table is compost for the ethnographic method, as well as, analysis of the performances, mainly corporal, understood as expressive and communicative acts. Although records were used audiovisual bolstered the descriptions and analysis of aspects observed in the field. Thus, it is found that the festivals of Chapel have a multitude of related identity, such as customs, traditions, beliefs, values, habits, modes of knowledge and practices that make up the sense of identity among the group and allow to identify it as belonging to an ethnic identity. These related identity could be observed in the performances of individuals who produce the festival and among its participants. It s possible to say that te celebrations of chapel trigger strategically and resignify belonging to the italian ethnic indentity, highlighting the festival itself as a cultural performance. However, this membership iss seen as contrastive. / Esta dissertação aborda a composição de identidades através das performances produzidas nas Festas de Capela no município de Silveira Martins, pertencente à Quarta Colônia de Imigração Italiana do Rio Grande do Sul. Festa de Capela é uma expressão que indica entre o próprio grupo manifestações festivas que ocorrem nas comunidades da zona rural, espaço que agrega as edificações de uma pequena igreja e de um salão, sendo que, esta festa presta homenagem ao santo padroeiro daquela capela. Estes espaços se tornam privilegiados para a pesquisa pela compreensão de sua delimitação territorial em vias da colonização por imigrantes italianos no século XIX, juntamente com a emergência de memórias que reconstroem um passado colonial e fundamentam-se numa origem mítica. Este estudo buscou mapear as Festas de Capela elegendo para análise cinco delas, além de outras duas manifestações festivas diversas, a fim de compor um quadro festivo local e contemplar a dimensão do cotidiano. Entende-se que o momento festivo, por simbolizar e exaltar elementos do cotidiano, se torna uma produção deste. A fundamentação para esta pesquisa ancora-se nas discussões sobre identidade, recorrendo principalmente às noções de identidade étnica e cultural e contemplando discussões que abrangem a questão identitária frente aos processos de globalização. O quadro de análise é composto pelo método etnográfico, bem como, pela análise de performances, principalmente corporais, entendidas como atos expressivos e comunicativos. Ainda foram utilizados registros audiovisuais que ampararam as descrições e análises de aspectos observados em campo. Assim, pôde-se verificar que as Festas de Capela apresentam uma multiplicidade de referentes identitários como costumes, tradições, crenças, valores, práticas alimentares, modos de saberes e fazeres que compõem o sentido de identidade entre o grupo permitindo identificá-lo como pertencente à identidade étnica italiana. Estes referentes identitários puderam ser observados nas performances dos indivíduos que produzem as festas e entre seus participantes. É possível afirmar que as Festas de Capela acionam de forma estratégica e ressignificam a pertença à identidade étnica italiana, evidenciando a própria festa como uma performance cultural. Entretanto, este pertencimento é visto de forma contrastiva, operando-se negociações entre identificações. Revela-se, assim, a Festa de Capela como um espaço privilegiado para o encontro entre indivíduos e confrontações identitárias, com predominância de elementos e significados vinculados à italianidade.

In this study, we explore six preschool pedagogues’ experiences regarding the celebrations of cultural and religious festivals and traditions, and how this is noted in their respective preschool settings. The purpose of this critical study is to make educators aware of how children’s ethnic and cultural diversity is reflected in the preschool’s attention or lack of attention to different festivals and traditions. The study is based on interviews conducted with six randomly selected preschool pedagogues from six different preschools from different parts of Sweden. Three of the preschool peda-gogues interviewed worked at “monocultural” preschools while the other three worked at what they considered as “multicultural” preschools. The results of the study are, that regardless of how the composition of the children’s group appeared, the preschool pedagogues’ reflections on their own situated experiences reveal the extent to which the festivals and traditions cele-brated are so-called Swedish and Christian. The festivals and traditions celebrated are e.g. Easter, Midsummer, Lucia and Christmas. Celebrations and traditions of a decent other than Swedish are not recognized in the same way. Theoretically, this study is based on Sara Ahmed’s ideas surrounding ‘the hegemony of white-ness’ and the ‘phenomenology of whiteness’. For us, this important critical and theoretical re-source opens for future questions about how well established the white hegemony is in our Swedish preschool.

In analyzing the 1989 bicentennial in Paris, my point of departure has been that the French government, faced with the cool reception to the memory of the Revolution of 1789, was trying to make revolutionary heritage relevant to contemporary concerns, by using allegorical techniques of spatializing and visualizing history while consequently (yet paradoxically, since it ran against their intentions) effecting a smooth passage for this heritage into the world of commodity and spectacle. To analyze this dilemma, I investigated the mechanisms of representation and the tension between spectacle and politically engaged imagery. Drawing from the work of Water Benjamin, the thesis proposed to use allegory as a mode of political criticism and redemptive interpretation. The analysis of the programming of events, for example, revealed that it contained a moral tale of sacrifice, and praised the power of the memory of the Revolution to form a community, not based on ethnicity or shared history but on shared ideals. The analysis of the use of collage in the Bastille Day Parade revealed that it reworked Republican notions of ‘fraternity in a post-colonial era to reflect contemporary discussions of métissage and take a position on its relationship to democracy. By looking at this commemoration allegorically, the double meanings inscribed in the bicentennial program, exhibits, monuments and parade can be unpacked. But the allegorical critique is violent, it does not carefully excavate layers of meaning through a gentle and constructive hermeneutic circle, it requires that the objects that are being contemplated be in fragments. As the allegorist reassembles the fragments into new meaningful constellations, the constructions remain open, driven by the impossibility of recovering what has been lost, always pointing to the instability of meaning. The analysis of the commemoration recognized that commodification and spectacularisation happen, but through reversal it also showed that the 1989 bicentennial draws from a constantly evolving relationship to memory which allows for investment on the part of the public. Because the commemoration is a powerful form of visualizing and spatializing history that occurs in public spaces, many provocative images were taken up by the press and written about, which ultimately reconfigured present-day discussions about democracy and citizenship. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this paper is to investigate the educational teaching practices of the body in Sergipe s elementary school during the First Republic, period from 1889 to 1930, and also the educational ideas of intellectuals that influenced the educational practices of the body, giving prominence to Rui Barbosa, Fernando de Azevedo, Jose Verissimo and, in Sergipe, Helvécio de Andrade and Baltazar Góes. In the period studied, the education of the body, to the formation of the Republican man, occurred through effective practices inside the schools in three ways: A Education of the body: hygienic care (with the location of schools, food, clothing, the use of individual cups, cleanliness of the body, separation of sick bodies and vaccination), physical exercises (Swedish gymnastics, military instruction, martial exercises, dance, children's entertainment, games, developments, marches, water-polo, foot-ball, swimming and scout activities); parades and school holidays (Change of the Capital of São Cristóvão from Aracaju, Inconfidência Mineira, Labor Day, Discovery of Brazil, Slave Liberation, Promulgation of State s Constitution, Taking of Bastille, Christmas Centenary of Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazil's Independence, Arbor Day, Children's Day, Centenary of the Law that Governs the Elementary School, Independence of Sergipe, Proclamation of the Republic, Paraguay War, Flag Party e Peace Party). The sources used were: educational reports, terms of visit, legislation, images, among others. / Este trabalho busca investigar as práticas pedagógicas educativas da educação do corpo, no ensino primário sergipano, durante a Primeira República, período compreendido entre 1889 a 1930, como também o pensamento educacional dos intelectuais que influenciaram as práticas da educação do corpo, com destaque para Rui Barbosa, Fernando de Azevedo e José Verissimo e em Sergipe Helvécio de Andrade e Baltazar Góes. No período abordado, a educação do corpo, para a formação do homem republicano, acontecia através de práticas efetivas no interior das escolas em três vertentes principais: Educação Física: cuidados higiênicos (com a localização das escolas, com a alimentação, com as vestimentas, com o uso do copo individual, com o asseio corporal, com a separação dos corpos doentes e com a vacinação), exercícios corporais (ginástica sueca, instrução militar, exercícios marciais, dança, diversões infantis, jogos, evoluções, marchas, Water-polo, foot-ball, natação e escotismo); desfiles cívicos e festividades escolares (Mudança da Capital da Cidade de São Cristóvão para Aracaju, Inconfidência Mineira, Dia do Trabalho, Descoberta do Brasil, Libertação dos Escravos, Promulgação da Constituição do Estado, Guerra do Paraguai, Tomada da Bastilha, Centenário Natalício de Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca, Independência do Brasil, Dia da Árvore, Dia da Criança, Centenário da Lei que regula o Ensino Primário, Independência de Sergipe, Proclamação da República, Festa da Bandeira, Guerra do Paraguai, e Festa da Paz). Foram utilizadas fontes como: relatórios de ensino, termos de visita, legislação, imagens, dentre outras.

This volume discusses everyday life in the Leipzig Mission's Kilimanjaro 'mission field', 1893-1939. The study focuses upon interaction and transculturation in boarding schools and hospitals, as well as at festivals. / Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem kolonialen Alltag der Leipziger Missionare auf dem 'Missionsfeld' Kilimanjaro in den Jahren 1893-1939. Die Studie fokussiert sich auf die Interaktion und Transkulturation in Internaten und Krankenhäusern, sowie bei Festen.

To the coronations which took place in Pre-White time, not enough attention has been paid yet. As it appears, enough accounts were preserved not only in contemporary prints but also in manuscript sources - in the works of chroniclers, in memories of persons present and above all in official and private correspondence. In addition to writen sources also material sorces and great part of iconographic sources have been preserved. The elaboration and evaluation of the sources to one of them, to the coronation of Matthias of Habsburg in Prague on May 23rd 1611, is a subject of the first half of this thesis. The coronation in the life of souvereign is a ceremony that generally certificates his leading position in the country. This ceremony customary is executed in accordance to the prede- terminated order. In case of the lands of Bohemian crown binding form has been set by coronation order of Bohemian kings Ordo ad coronandum Regem Bohemorum, prepared by Charles IV. The main core of this order was maintained also by Matthias coronation. His coronation in the cathedrale of Saint Vitus was a festive ceremony strongly influenced by then political situation. It placed under the strong protection of troops, excluding the general public, mostly ordinary people. Despite of it the ceromony was performed with...

Esta tese analisa tanto o papel político e simbólico das comemorações de efemérides relacionadas à anexação do Acre ao Brasil, quanto a veracidade das narrativas de eventos históricos divulgadas por ocasião dessas festividades. No Mundo Ocidental, desde a Antiguidade até os nossos dias, se tornou comum a utilização do discurso epopeico em festas cívicas. Dessa forma, o fenômeno comemorativo no Acre foi estudado como parte dessa tradição milenar. A releitura da formação histórica do Acre levou em consideração a inserção dessa região amazônica à cadeia mercantil da economia-mundo capitalista ocorrida na segunda metade do século XIX. As informações sobre o Acre foram obtidas em jornais, documentos e livros encontrados nos acervos da Biblioteca Nacional (RJ), do Museu da Borracha (AC) e do Departamento de Patrimônio Histórico do Acre (DPHAC). Aquelas sobre festas cívicas no Mundo Ocidental foram conseguidas por meio de consulta bibliográfica no acervo da Biblioteca Florestan Fernandes (FFLCH/USP). A pesquisa teve caráter exploratório com predominância do método qualitativo. Uma das conclusões parciais a que se chegou foi que as festas cívicas no Acre desempenharam o mesmo papel político que há anos elas cumprem no Mundo Ocidental, qual seja, o de forjar identidades, provocar ufanismo, promover coesão social, disseminar valores e tradições, legitimar o tempo presente, validar uma dada versão do passado, dentre outros. Quanto à narrativa epopeica da história do Acre apresentada pelos promotores das comemorações cívicas, o conceito a que se chegou dela, conforme as propostas analíticas da história anticomemorativa formuladas por alguns historiadores contemporâneos como Pierre Nora, é que ela é desonesta, irresponsável e abusiva. Isso porque reproduz uma representação do passado que não condiz em todo ou em parte com a realidade dos fatos históricos a que se refere e porque sempre esteve comprometida com as causas e os interesses do status quo acriano / The present dissertation analyses the political and symbolical role of civic commemorations and celebration dates related to the annexation of Acre to Brazil as well as the historical truth of the celebrated events. The mobilization of epic narratives in civic celebrations is very common in the Western World, from the antiquity to the present. In this way, the civic commemorations in Acre were studied as part of that millenary tradition. The re-reading of Acres historical formation was pursued from the perspective of Acres situation in the Amazonia region and its insertion within the capitalist world economy. Information about Acre were found in newspapers, documents and books located at the collections of the National Library (Biblioteca Nacional - RJ), Rubber Museum (Museu da Borracha - AC), e Department of Historical Heritage of Acre (Departamento de Patrimônio Histórico do Acre DPHAC). The Florestan Fernandes Library (FFLCH/USP) offered bibliographical resources to support the theoretical approach of this dissertation .This research exemplify an emphasis on the qualitative method. A partial conclusion lead by this work is that civic celebrations in Acre had fulfilled the same political role as it does in the Western World forging identities and social cohesion, promoting chauvinism, spreading values and traditions to validate the present. Following an anti-commemoration historiographical contemporary tendency, this dissertation also concludes that the epic narrative presented by the supporters of the civic commemorations can be considered dishonest, abusive and irresponsible. That is because it reproduces a representation of the past not according the reality of the historical facts, and because it has always been committed with the persistence of Acrean status quo