THE JESUIT BALDUÍNO RAMBO (1905-1961): EDUCATION AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE BRAZILIAN SOUTH
During the Society of Jesus’s post-restoration time, the Brazilian missions were organized in three regions: the Meridional, the Central, and the Septentrional (GREVE, 1942). The first one corresponded to the German Jesuit Province, which is the focus of an ongoing doctoral research project that aims to investigate the role of geography within the German Jesuits’ educational mission in the Brazilian South. The current paper centers on the Jesuit Balduíno Rambo (1905-1961) who used to be a teacher of Geography and Natural History at a Jesuit school, the Colégio Anchieta, Brazil. Rambo was born in Tupandi, Brazil, a son of colonists, and used to speak Hunsrik (a German dialect) as his first language. He studied at a local school and was literate in German. Starting his religious studies in the Brazilian South and pursuing them further in Germany, he later returned to Brazil to teach at the Colégio Anchieta, where he established the geography curriculum and authored geographical textbooks used to teach geography at Jesuit schools (ARENDT; CHRISTOFF, 2009). On the basis of this material, the main goal of this paper is to examine the geographical thought of the Jesuit Balduíno Rambo through primary sources from the Jesuit Memorial of the University of the Rio dos Sinos Valley, sited in São Leopoldo, Brazil. The main research sources are the geography curriculums developed by the priest and geographical textbooks written by him. The idea is to understand his Jesuit comprehension of the world, his research and teaching practices, and how he was connected to the Jesuits’ international missionary network. The subject of space on the development of a knowledge has been considered (LIVINGSTONE, 1995; 2005). Therefore, Gänger’s (2017) “circulation” idea is used as an analytic tool, not considering the distribution, diffusion, and spread of knowledge, but rather studying the movement of the geographical content produced and taught, its conditions, and its contingency.
Mots clés : Balduíno Rambo|circulation of geographers|History of the Geographical Thought|geographical textbooks|geography curriculum
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