Histórias e memórias da professora e autora de livros didáticos Nelly Cunha (1920-1999).

Abstract

This paper focus on giving visibility to the Life Story of the educator Nelly Cunha (1920-1999), a primary teacher who was also one of the most important schoolbook authors in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, between the years of 1960 and 1980. The research was developed based on two types of sources: oral and written. Oral sources were collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded and transcribed, with relatives, friends, ex-students and co-authors of textbooks, which means the interviewed people’s memory was a valuable research source. The written sources were made available by Nelly’s daughters, who donated their mother’s private archive, which was carefully taken care by them throughout the years. This archive includes personal and official documents, manuscripts, diaries, newspapers’ articles, letters, pictures, textbook collections, etc. In what concerns theoretic and methodological options, the studies about life stories and the matters around private archives and textbooks guided the research.