Abstract
This article studies elementary schools from the city of São Paulo in the early 20th century. Only isolated public schools and elementary private ones that were subsidized by the Italian government will be studied. The choice for that period of time was motivated by the high number of active subsidized schools in the city. Our aim is to understand how the governments from the city of São Paulo and from Italy managed those schools in the city. The sources used for this research were the Fanfulla newspaper; the reports from principals and school inspectors existing in the Annuarios do Ensino do Estado de São Paulo, which are located in the collection of Public Archives from the State of São Paulo; and the Annuario delle scuole italiane all'estero governative e sussidiate which can be found in the collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma. The theoretical foundation was based on authors such as Pereira (2010) who brought the context of the city of São Paulo in the period studied; Souza (2009) for focusing on primary schooling; Salvetti (2014) who described the establishment of the "Dante Alighieri" association. Our conclusion shows that the schools existed concurrently with similar goals, but the government from the city of São Paulo was able to gradually make up the lack of school vacancies by undermining the subsidized schools.
Keywords:
elementary schooling; peninsular immigrants; history of education