Sowing enthusiasm: the Orestes Guimarães Reform in Santa Catarina (1910-1918)

Abstract

This article focuses on the Orestes Guimarães Reformation in Santa Catarina, which was carried out in the years 1910 to 1918. For that, it was privileged as a source of the articles of the professor of Paraná Raul Rodrigues Gomes published in the newspaper Diário da Tarde in 1921 about the Reformation in Santa Catarina, analyzing them in an interlocution, and through the methodology of exchange of sources, with studies by researcher Gladys Mary Ghizoni Teive. A deep admirer of Orestes de Oliveira Guimarães and his unprompted achievements in Modern Pedagogy, Raul Gomes brought to the surface, through his writings, facts and publication possibilities, the Reformation that elevated the State of Santa Catarina to the level of modernization so modernized so longed and propagated by the rulers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century, mainly is not what is the creation of School Groups and remodeling of other school institutions.