ESSAYS, LETTERS AND FREE COMPOSITIONS: THE NOTEBOOK AS OBJECT OF SCHOOL MATERIAL CULTURE (LAGES/SC - 1935)

Abstract The school notebook is an object of material culture that enables history of education to understanding the school's daily life. This work investigated the writing practices in a text production notebook belonging to a former student of the Normal School of Lages, State of Santa Catarina, in the year of 1935. In this research, the school notebook represented a tool that has allowed to see part of the negotiation process between the prescribed by the curriculum, the pedagogical work and the types of writing styles developed by the normalist. Writings were analyzed in texts, such as: essays, letters and free compositions. The use of the notebook as document/source made it possible to understand the appropriations and the uses of this object as bearer of meanings attached to a system of values and social representations that goes beyond the object function aimed only at the record of the learning process.