ARTICLE - OPEN-AIR SCHOOL OF SÃO PAULO ESCOLA DE APLICAÇÃO AO AR LIVRE DE SÃO PAULO

ABSTRACT: The paper discusses the history of the Open-Air School of São Paulo, a preschool institution created in 1939 inside the Água Branca Park in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Its classes were carried out with portables blackboards and school desks. International, national and local knowledge about open-air institutions that were in circulation in São Paulo in previous years was appropriated for its creation. The school was promoted as a model institution, being used as field of application and internships for students from the Higher School of Physical Education and the Normal School Caetano de Campos. In 1952 the school was transferred to a special building, which ensured the realization of open-air classes. The sources used in this research are newspaper articles from São Paulo’s press, decrees, laws, draft legislation, official reports, books, monographs and journals of education and physical education.