WOMEN TEACHERS IN THE GUAPORÉ VALLEY (IN BRAZIL)

THE HISTORICAL JOURNEY OF CALVARIAN WOMEN IN THE SCHOOLING OF GIRLS FROM GUAPORÉ

Abstract

In this text, we investigate the historical journey of Calvarian women in the schooling of the guaporenses women. The Calvarian sisters left France and came to Brazil, starting in the 1930s, to along the Guaporé Valley, between Mato Grosso and Rondônia, Brazil, join Father Francisco Xavier Rey, pastor in the city of Guajará-mirim and on the banks of the Guaporé River, north of Mato Grosso, they built or opened schools to educate girls who lived there. The objective of this text is to analyze the most significant educational, school, cultural, and/or social experiences that were developed in the daily school life. The research is based on a documental study, of qualitative character and finds relevance in identifying and bringing some reflections about the insertion of these women in the history of female education in the state of Mato Grosso and Rondônia, in Brazil. Seeking to answer the problematic of how these women organized education in those places, we consider that they brought with them the objective of obedience to their ecclesiastical order and when they arrived in the Brazilian North region, they made prosper the mission of which they were imbued: to evangelize the guaporense women and make their beliefs flourish in Brazilian soil. In short, they were women who worked so that their diocese prospered and occupied the empty and distant corners of the Brazilian Midwest and North regions.