The proposition of the Escola Oratório Salesiana: the case of the Cidade Dom Bosco (Corumbá, Mato Grosso, 1957-1973)

Abstract

This article has as object the Cidade Dom Bosco (named as Escola Alexandre Aurélio de Castro in 1957, when it was opened), situated in Dom Bosco neighbourhood. We observed and analysed the parameters and guidelines of the Salesian education from 1957 to 1973. It discusses how this educational institute was implanted. The objective of the institute was to integrate the working class students into society. The nucleous of this action was the Salesian ethos for education, based on Dom Bosco’s ‘preventive system’, aiming at materializing the so named Escola Oratório. Th is way, it had particular characteristics in relation to the other Salesian initiatives, as it created to support the working class of the city where it is located. Also, through this institution, the Salesian social project was extended and it considers the school as the way for not to leave the working class condition, but as a mean to rise socially in the same universe.