The school civilization by the didactic compendia of teacher training

The present work has the purpose of ascertaining aspects concerning the school routine, due to its ritual dimension. The hypothesis of school education as a rite of initiation is the guiding focus of this research. In this sense, various documents were studied, contemplating mainly, for the cases in Portugal and Brazil, didactic books of teacher training. By observing the modes of teaching, one can verify the strength of the cultural stature of the school. If the provision of an educational system encodes rules of action for the structure of the school network, there are aspects in this field that go beyond the normative prescriptions of the official programs and guidelines that tell how or what to teach. In this regard, it is possible to say that not everything that the school does can be predicted. The compendia addressed to primary school and teacher training are, in their historical dimension, clearly revealing a given psychic process of civilization. The word there is directed to the regulation of behaviors.