A favor ou contra Castilho? Rede de apoiadores no império brasileiro

Abstract

The portuguese poet António Feliciano de Castilho (1800-1875) created the Castilho Method for teaching reading, and came to Brazil in 1855 to disseminate it. Aiming to contribute to the teaching of reading and writing, he proposed different reforms in primary and secondary education in Portugal and Brazil, incorpo-rated into the Modernity project, in which the school based on traditionalism was designed as a stage for ex-perimentation in a project of pedagogical and social re-demption. Despite having received several resistances and the cancellation of his course, Brazilian and Portuguese subjects who lived in the Brazilian court and who were considered “friends” by the poet appeared in the historical sources. The major methodological challen-ge of this article consisted in tracking this network of supporters of this educational project in the Brazilian empire. This analysis will be based on authors such as Albuquerque (2019), Boto (2012) and Castilho’s me-morialist works (1902).