Resumen

ARRIADA, Eduardo  y  MEDEIROS NOGUEIRA, Gabriela. Produção, circulação e uso de textos escolares e livros de leitura na escola elementar gaúchaI. Hist. educ. anu. [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.2, pp.168-187. ISSN 2313-9277.

This work investigates the production and use of reading books in elementary school in Rio Grande do Sul, during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the historical context that includes two proposals, liberals and positivists. Reading and writing was to mean modernity. The modernity process had a special meaning in Brazil on the XIX century. Among its influential areas the most significant was the school premises. The idea to civilize the population through knowledge, which was tied to the moralization, religious ordainment, civility, etc., started to be insufficient to the formation of the new alphabetized man now demanded by the new pattern of industrial development. The educational subjects, in this course, were used by the directors as a way to prepare the citizen of Rio Grande do Sul for the new ages of capitalism.

Palabras clave : Rio Grande do Sul; Reading books; History of education.