The First Competitive Examinations for Teacher Selection: The Construction of Order without Didactics
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47150#.VGBM7WfHRK0 Author(s) Eurize Caldas Pessanh Affiliation(s) Graduate Program in Education, Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Centro de Ciências Humanas e Sociais—CCHS), Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul—UFMS), Campo Grande, Brazil . ABSTRACT The main purpose of this article is to analyze the competitive examinations (concursos) developed for the hiring of public school teachers in Brazil in the XIX century. An analysis of these competitive examinations explaining the characteristics that the government required of people whom it wished to hire as teachers represents an ...