“AMERICANISM” AND THE CREATION OF THE SPANISH SUBJECT IN THE BRAZILIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION (1917-1926)

Abstract This article has investigated the contributions of “Americanism” to the creation of the Spanish Language subject in the Brazilian secondary education, the immediate aims of the institutionalization of Spanish as a school subject and the difficulties of such process in Brazil from 1917 to 1926. The study has been based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of cultural history and especially on the history of school subjects in the dialogue with André Chervel (1990). The analysis has evidenced that despite the introduction of the Spanish Language teaching as an exchange of kindness with the Government of Uruguay that has not aggregated any other aim to the teaching process.