O Conselho Presidial e a educação na provincia do Maranhão (1825-1834)

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyse the new educational bases with the independence and the construction of a new state that gained impulse, especially from the decree-law of October 15th, 1827.Being based mainly on the presidential council minute book, political body made by the constitutional assembly of 1823 that worked during the first years of the Brazilian empire. For certain construction, the analyses considers the main laws that guide the councilor‟s actions, a letter from October 20th of 1823, and the constitution of 1827 that are fundamental to understand the process of instruction during the first years of the empire. The presidential council had the primordial function to help the president of province to deal with administrative questions. One of the questions of huge importance in the council meeting was the provincial education, the subject of this study, which also comprehends the attempts of creation of schools and innovation of the teaching model. The period of time used is from 1825 to 1834, time in which the council functioned.