O Colégio Adventista Brasileiro e a revista O Colegial: história, instituição e o periodismo impresso (1930-1974)

Abstract

The research analyzed O Colegial, a printed school newsletter produced by an editorial board formed at times by a larger group and at other times by a smaller group of students and teachers from Colégio Adventista Brasileiro, a Protestant teaching institution founded in 1915 in the region from the south zone of the city of São Paulo. The periodical circulated in the institution between the 1930s and 1970s. It was characterized as an enterprise used in communication with the school community of Colégio Adventista Brasileiro and with the leaders and faithful of the Adventist Church in Brazil. It was prepared by an editorial commission made up of students, professors and administrators of the institution. The choice of student printouts as a research source was based on the understanding that, in educational historiography, printouts represent a documental source for the understanding and interpretation of institutional projects. For the analysis of the documentation, methodological contributions from the scope of the History of Educational Institutions were used, namely: analysis of the institutional genesis, organization, functioning, representations, tradition and memories, practices, involvement, as well as those that favor different confessionalities and their articulations with space, time and singularities. The research analyzed the values that guided the institution between the Varguista period and the civil-military dictatorship, through the analysis of the magazine's editions, its cycles and interest groups. They base the general proposition of the work, school practices, the circulation of ideas and editorial policy, from a confessional-protestant perspective and its strategies for expanding the Adventist network and Adventism in Brazil. It was identified through the analysis of the journal, that in Colégio Adventista Brasileiro, between the years 1930 and 1974, there was a network of contacts and ideas formed by people from all over Brazil and from other places in the world and that this space was fundamental to create Adventist identity in the country. In the documental analysis of the periodical, it was identified the commitment of the Colégio Adventista Brasileiro in maintaining the religious confession in the school practices