ABSTRACT:
This article discusses the process of implementation and installation of the University College of the Federal University of Maranhão in the context of the modernization of education in the state (1960-1980) and its transfer and restructuring to the peripheral neighborhood of Vila Palmeira in São Luís as an Application College. The political-educational conjuncture that made possible the removal of this integrated unit from the university campus as a schooling modality restricted to a small and selective clientele, to a poor community in the outskirts of the capital is analyzed. The confrontations between strategies imposed by the educational policy/functionalist management of the state, and tactics of appropriation of teachers, employees, students, leaders and community organizations belonging to a local culture, which in function of interconnected interests, defended the institution as an instance of belonging, permanence and survival, are pointed out. Newspapers, legislation, and documentation from the school archives are used as sources guided by the theoretical and methodological framework of cultural history. We conclude that the constant defense of the local community, teachers and employees for the role/place of the Colégio de Aplicação as a symbolic and concrete image of overcoming in this suburban neighborhood and its effectiveness as a school-laboratory, internship field and space for permanent and adult education, constitutes a currency of exchange for these individuals to have access to the market of symbolic goods and a way to capitalize possibilities of social ascension via school success.
Keywords:
University College; History of Education; Maranhão; high school education; Law No. 5.692
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