Abstract:

The Pedagogical Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro took place in August and September 1883 and had been planned as a concomitant event to the Congress of Public Instruction, which was not carried out due to political and financial issues. The monitoring of news about the aforementioned events, in Brazilian newspapers and periodicals from the 1880s, evidences representations of the Exhibition as the one that would hold guidelines for school materials and furniture, which could be operationalized in favor of Brazilian public education. In this study, the focus turns to the analysis of school furniture referenced in the Conferences held during the Pedagogical Exhibition, having the understanding of how school desks were represented there as a central scope.

Keywords:
Pedagogical Exhibition; conferences; school desks; school material culture