Escotismo e educação integral em Juiz de Fora: o Grupo Cayuás do Instituto Metodista Granbery (1927 – 1932)

Abstract

This is a research that intends to investigate the presence of the scout movement in the primary department at the Granbery Methodist Institute from Juíz de Fora between 1927 and 1932 which is believed to have contributed for the education of the students from that school. Exactly like the regulation of the institution, the educational programmes at that time (New School) would bring a new trend which would defend a full educational system, that is, the student should learn how to improve his capacity in all ways (mentally, intelectualy and physically). Since there was an attempt to make the students` actions be similar to the scout boys` routine, all or at least most schools from Juiz de Fora, we can highlight the Granbery Institute, by the way, whose team was named "Cayuás", so much so that we analysed some documents that have been found in an institutions'file, such as the scoutboys'writings from the Granbery Institute, pictures and the seasonal objects like the Granbery itself and the Cayuás flag. The development of the study helped us on how to understand the political, social and cultural needs, which were essential for the Institute's coming and beginning in Juiz de Fora, and the input of such culture, that is, the scout movement and how it is related with the New School thought and the teaching conception, which had previously been thought by the school. Throughout our studies we could perceive that the scout movement was taken by the Dean from Granbery as the greatest way in order to educate the elite's children from Juiz de Fora, therefore, we can say that it has straightly contributed for the Granbery full educational system.