Rural education in the lens of science: the schooling of the inner as a means of occupation of the interland of Paraná

Abstract

By the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth, many discussions happened about the territoriality of Brazil. There was a unique nearness, almost accomplice from the pattern of thought emanating from evolutionary/naturalist philosophy, conveyed in the Brazilian academy, especially in the School of Philosophy of Sao Paulo and the actions of immigrant settlement. In a perspective of macro and micro historical relation, it suggests to perceive the materiality of an imaginary science taking shape in the organization of the territoriality in southern Brazil, focusing specifically the case of the State of Parana. Dismembered from the Province of Sao Paulo in 1853 its headquarters is centered in Curitiba. Until the late '40s, little was known about the "ends of the hinterlands." The access to the border between Brazil and Paraguay, where today demarks the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu, were accessible by Argentina due to difficulties or nonexistence of access from the capital to the interior. Doctors, teachers and settlers were individuals or social groups and founders of the domestication of the hinterland.