Francisco Iglésias and the undergraduate course of geography and history at the School of Philosophy of Minas Gerais (1940’s)

Abstract

The article seeks to explore the institutionalization of historical knowledge through the analysis of the undergraduate course of Geography and History of the School of Philosophy of Minas Gerais (FAFI) by examining the formative years of the historian Francisco Iglésias between 1942 and 1945. For this purpose, we use not only the normative regulations of the course’s curricular and didactical organization, but we also examine some of the practices of the chairs attended by Francisco Iglésias, in order to grasp the  internal workings of the School. We conclude that the conception of history that guided the production of teaching systematics at the institution prized the cultural dimension of the events in detriment of the project of national history focused on the exaltation of heroes and dates, supposedly imposed by the guidelines of the National School of Philosophy (FNFi).