Educação entre tornos, notas e salários: Escola de Aprendizagem Coronel Frederico Lundgren Rio Tinto/PB (1944-1967)

Abstract

In the 1940s, created the industrial schools of the National Service of Industrial Learning (SENAI) in order to prepare skilled labor to work in factories. In the interior of Paraíba, this industrial ideology also became evident through the textile factory located in a district Mamanguape/PB. This project generated around fifteen thousand direct jobs, resulting from the exemption from Tax on Goods (ICM), statewide, for twenty-five years, granted by the governor at the time. Through the legislation that implemented the SENAI and the Organic Law of Industrial Education, the School of Learning that was held exclusively by the industrial establishment that created it, would not make the payment of compulsory contributions due to SENAI, thus becoming a School Exemption. Thus, these two tax incentives contributed to serve the interests of the Company Fabric Rio Tinto (CTRT) and also for the creation of the School of Learning Colonel Frederick Lundgren (EACFL). This Learning School offering vocational training for the children of workers and aimed to the preparation of manpower for the local industry. Thus, this study aims to analyze the educational experience of workers in CTRT and reconstruct the history of the School of SENAI of Rio Tinto (EACFL). Therefore, this case study research carried out the following types: bibliographic, documental and field. The documentary research is limited to the period 1944-1967 - the first time in March the creation of the school in October 2, 1944 through the waiver agreement between the SENAI/PE and CTRT. The second date with respect to the end of this waiver agreement in which the EACFL was maintained solely by plant tissues. For the collection of documentary data, mapped daily class, students control sheets, evaluations, certificates and relations of graduating classes. This data was collected in the archives of CTRT and the Regional SENAI in Campina Grande/PB. In the field study, we used interviews with thematic former students/ older workers school and factory, residents in the city of Rio Tinto, to collect data. We use the ideas of Thompson, the english historian who has as one of its foci search category experience, articulating with the culture. The results indicate that EACFL with the educational philosophy of SENAI, implemented a school culture to the plant and preparing students to become future labor efficient and disciplined in order to guarantee the permanence of man's exploitation by capital. However, this pedagogy capitalist, which enables to domination, created outlines outside the school. The vocational educational experience in Rio Tinto through the school and the factory also brought an education generated in these environments of social interactions and everything indicates that sparked a new culture, or face the domination and mobilize to the scope of the claims, culminating the organization of workers in union and political.