A iconografia e a iconologia nos livros didáticos das Edições Tabajara: um estudo das imagens na Coleção Guri (Rio Grande do Sul, década de 1960)

Abstract

This Doctoral Thesis in Education has as main objective to analyze the images of the Coleção Guri’s textbooks, authored by teachers Elbio N. Gonzales, Flávia E. Braun, Rosa M. Ruschel and Zenna T. Braun and published by Edições Tabajara in the 1960s, in state of Rio Grande do Sul. Among the 26 copies of the collection stored in the archive of the research group History of Literacy, Reading, Writing and Textbooks – Hisales (College of Education – FaE / Federal University of Pelotas - UFPel), the research is integrated by the Cartilha do Guri, the Primeiro Livro do Guri, the Segundo Livro do Guri, the Terceiro Livro do Guri, the Terceiro Livro do Guri – Edição especial para o Rio Grande do Sul, the Terceiro Livro do Guri - Leitura and the Quarto Livro do Guri. From the studies of iconography and iconology in the referred textbooks, the types of images used are identified; the elements, characteristics and graphic techniques adopted in the creation of the images are specified; the functions, the meanings, the senses, the representations and the identities of the images are comprehended; the relations between the images and the textual content of the pages are verified; the recurrences and adaptations of images are ascertained; the context and historical-educational aspects are identified; the publisher and the professionals involved in the production of the books and in the creating process of the images are presented. The results of the investigation intend to demonstrate that the images of the Coleção Guri’s textbooks contribute to the configuration of a historical school memory, through its aesthetics, graphic styles and the illustration graphic techniques; by their association with a cultural identity; by the representation of certain characteristics that define an editorial model and demonstrate production structures and printing technologies; by the identification of didactic-pedagogical methods precepts in a certain period; by the revelation of a historical, political, economic, educational, social and cultural context. In addition, all these factors contribute to the constitution of the Edições Tabajara’s editorial and graphic history, whose books were published between the decades of 1940 and 1980.