An intellectual"organic": Octavio Pires and development Review Education and Training, edited in Para in XIX century final

Abstract

This article aims to socialize the contribution of Octavio Pires, normalista and intellectual teacher Pará, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, who devoted part of his life in front of the direction of the Education and Training Magazine. The methodological strategy adopted was bibliographic and documentary research. The theoretical pervaded the writings of Gramsci (2001), Semeraro (2006), Viana (1987), Marcelo Garcia (1999), among others. We believe that the contribution of Octavio Pires is of fundamental importance, to enable teachers, especially primary school teachers, reflection, discussion and proposal on the numerous challenges pertaining to the teaching profession and public education in the state. The bringing of this text is that other scholars and researchers of Brazilian education, especially Pará, can perform in-depth analysis of the legislation passed by the State Congress, in the late nineteenth century.