“THE ONE WHO REVOLVED THE EARTH AND THE COMMUNITY” The socio-educational trajectory of Rosina José de Carvalho Alves: a rural educator (1947-1993)
Rural Education, Rural Education in Minas Gerais, Lay Rural Teacher.
The premise of this research is to understand the educational trajectory of Rosina José de The
premise of this research is to understand the educational trajectory of Rosina José de Carvalho
Alves (1931-1994) in her more than 30 years of experience as a teacher at Escola Rural Mista
Francisco Xavier de Sales, located in the Serra da Garça I community in Liberdade/MG. Rosina
was a woman, mother of nine children, she became a lay teacher at the age of 17 and coordinated
the rural community in which she lived, managing the purchases of food, medicine, work contracts
and social organization, as she was one of the few people which had customary access to the urban
area of the municipality of Liberdade/MG. This research allowed us to realize that Rosina occupied
a place of power unlike most other women in her social reality, a fact made possible by her level
of education and paid public position in the decades between 1940 and 1990. Her educational
trajectory, as a lay teacher, It was based on students' literacy, through teaching adapted to the rural
conditions of the time in conjunction with existing rural legislation. The sources analyzed ranged
from personal documents, such as letters from his aunt to his father, while he was still a student,
receipt slips, letters to the mayor, to official documents from the school where he worked, such as
attendance sheets, enrollment forms, among others. . In terms of the results, it was possible to verify
that Rosina, in addition to being a teacher, was also a woman with a position that went far beyond
being a teacher, which was what was expected for a teacher. Rosina built a position in the society
in which she lived, dealt with services, actions and had an attitude that was expected of a man, not
a woman, mother and teacher. On the other hand, it was seen that, even in this situation, Rosina
still had duties that were considered feminine, such as taking care of the house, children, layettes,
etc. For the documentary analyses, the sources were discussed in line with authors such as: Cellard
(2008) in understanding the documentation; Revel (1998) in linking the figure of Rosina to the
national educational context; Foucault (2019) in the analysis of the construction of the place of
power that Rosina occupied in the society in which she lived; Perrot (2017) in the disruption of the
position of female teacher that was expected for Rosina; and, finally, in the Basic Education
Guidelines Laws of 1961 and 1971, which were not dedicated to thinking about specific education
for rural areas, which was the premise for the discussion of the entire work.