Repercussions of the Empire in the Portuguese education (1906 - 1951). Breaking new ground in a little-explored field ^{2 3 4 5}

Abstract

Repercussions of the Empire in Portuguese Education (1906 to 1951). Breaking new ground in a little-explored field, this text addresses the question of the image of the colonies and the colonized in the context of Portuguese education (1906 to 1951) through Portuguese textbooks and a manual to teach indigenous Angolan children. The latter was edited in two moments - we suppose at the beginning of the Republic and in re-editions during the Dictatorship. We used materials referring to the first colonial exhibition in 1934 and the 1940 Portuguese World exhibition. The work is situated in the perspective of postcolonial studies, attempting to re-read colonialism in Portuguese education. We used heterogeneous sources and raised some questions to point out that much is yet to be studied.

Keywords Portuguese colonial Empire; colonialism in school education; colonial exhibitions; autochthonous languages; bilingual textbooks