Register book of school inspectors: a research source for the history of regional education

Abstract

This article aims at discussing some aspects of the work of school inspector in primary education, using as source records of the terms of visits in a school group in the interior of Sao Paulo, in the period between 1931 and 1940. It is a documentary and bibliographic research. The analysis of records resulted in the verification that, within the ideas of Escola Nova, the most developed in school groups were welfare institutions, such as Caixa Escolar, and that school inspectors contributed to the dissemination of the nationalism imposed by Getulio Vargas, as well as for the expansion of schooling in the state of Sao Paulo.