Cartilhas em língua alemã produzidas pelos sínodos luteranos no Rio Grande do Sul: usos e memórias (1923-1945).

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to analyze illustrative representations of four booklets produced in German language, by publishers Rotermund, affiliated with the Rio- Grandense Synod, and Concordia, linked to the Missouri Synod. It also counted on the narrative analysis of nine literate subjects by these materials in Lutheran synodal schools. The research is comprised between 1923, the year in which the Concordia publishing house was founded on Brazilian and in 1945, due to the consolidation of the nationalization of education, when the use of the German language in the teaching materials in Brazil was prohibited. In this way, the central problem of the research is focused on how the illustrations in the booklets of Rotermund and Concordia publishers influenced the uses of this didactic material by the literate subjects in the Lutheran religious institutions of Serra dos Tapes. The study is part of the History of Education, supported by the theoretical perspective of Cultural History and based on the concept of representation, especially from Chartier (1990) and Pesavento (2005), and is based on the methodology of documentary analysis and Oral History. It is understood that these booklets collaborated in the cultural and social re-signification of the Teuto-Brazilians who colonized Rio Grande do Sul. Thus, as a contribution to the area of the History of Education, the ideological, moral and social proposal of this didactic material was investigated, taking into account the doctrinal and ideological principles defended by the Lutheran Synods (DREHER, 1984; WEIDUSCHADT, 2007), as well as pointed out for the relation between the illustrations and the geographic context of Rio Grande do Sul (KREUTZ, 1994). The narratives made it possible a greater approximation with the uses and the influences of these representations in the schooling of the subjects interviewed. The joint analysis of the different typologies of sources made it possible to perceive the different uses of the illustrations in the booklets that were directly related to the ethnic, social and religious principles proclaimed by the synods, whose main motivation was to reflect and guide the audience for which they were produced. As revealed by the narratives, these images functioned as mediators in a socio-cultural teaching and learning process. Therefore, the promotion of established social relations, evidenced by the illustrations, makes it perceptible the attempt of the synods to re-signify ethnic-cultural values in their readers.