Coleção atualidades pedagógicas: do projeto político ao projeto editorial(1931-1981)

Abstract

This work is an investigationabout the Coleção Atualidades Pedagógicas from 1931 up to 1981, based on the proposition of the Cultural History to consider the printed subject as a cultural matter. That means to work with the matters contained in the Coleção (collection), related to the way it has been produced, its emission, the way it is receiveidand how it has been used. The Coleção has been directed by Femando de Azevedo from 1931 to 1946 and by J. B. Damasco Penna from 1947 to 1979. It consists on 133 volumes of several authors and has been reprinted several times. Along these years the Coleção has been guided by two different editorial formulas: under Azevedo's guidance it has been transformed into the front in the struggle for a political-culturalproject; under Penna's guidance it has been adapted to an effective editorial project, concerningformation of the secondaryteachers. The work intends to draw a profile of the Coleção, based on the survey of the titles and of the authors, on the themes and on the translators selected by the publishers, to understand the criteria proposed for its composition; analysing the Coleção on its material realization (cover, printing resources, etc.) on its critical aspect and on its productive capacity; re-building the editors' planning related ~othe editorial project, to compare it with its own realization, analysing the editorial formulasthat gavelife to the Coleção