Abstract
This text presents considerations about the Classes Integrais of Colégio Estadual do Paraná, a proposal of pedagogical innovation developed between 1960 and 1967 in the modeling secondary school located in Curitiba, Paraná. Specific issues related to the process of elaborating the plan of educational innovation are highlighted, with emphasis on inspiration in the "great centers of pedagogical studies". It was possible to notice that the study of the experiences carried out in other secondary schools allowed the elaborators of the plan of the Classes Integrais to outline a singular proposal in the context of the educational innovations in secondary education engendered in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s.
Keywords:
integral classes; high school; pedagogical innovations; Colégio Estadual do Paraná