Primary education in Canavieiras - Bahia (1889-1928)

Abstract

The article presents a synthetic picture of public education in the village and, later, in the city of Canavieiras, in the period that covers the beginning of the republican period until the administration of Anísio Teixeira as General Inspector of Education in Bahia, showing the transformations that occurred in this path . There was an expansion of access to primary education, but little progress was made to promote the other stages of education, as well as the presence of lay teachers gradually giving way to the “master-students” teachers. The article covers a period of many proposals and changes in education, and it can even be perceived that, given the local political and administrative difficulties, there were significant advances in the period that would of universalizing primary public education in the cocoa region.