Somos Semeadores: estratégias identitárias na Escola Normal Sarah

Abstract
Placed in the field of Brazilian History of Education, the present study was
focused in a Class of 1965 from Sarah Kubistschek´s teachers School (Teacher training
program). Based on interviews and document research related to this Class, we ought to
disclose the relationship the students had established with politics and with their own
career under an undemocratic phase of Brazilian History. We support our analysis in the
definition that this relationship had been gradually built by the self-identity strategies
each of the students made during the period they were at Sarah Kubistschek. We try to
observe how the students built their own social identity based on the social identity
inherited from the previous generations and the intended, given and assumed social
identity (Dubar, 1997)
Some of this relationship had been led by the area the School is placed, in the
middle of Rio´s west district in a period that area was know by the name of “Sertão
Carioca”. Focused in that specific region and, sometimes, in the city of Rio de Janeiro,
we try to analyze moments of the teacher´s career that, in our personal view, we judge
that had assisted to consolidate its own specific social identity. We hope that this study
contributes to a better understand of the glimpse towards the teachers of “first letters”,
that usually classifies them as apolitical, due to our consciousness of their strategies and
pattern of relationship with politics and their own professional as means to built their
own, socially made, self-identity.
Key-Words: Educational History, Teacher´s career, social identity.