| Summary: | This article deals with the history of Educational Biology (1933-1970) taking
into account the development of this discipline in the Normal Schools in São
Paulo (Brazil). The investigation is based on several kinds of documents,
mainly teaching plans, programs, schoolbooks and testimonies from former
teachers. It considers the projects for schools renovation developed since the
1920s, as they produced certain kind of needs for the teacher education. It
examines three periods of that history: the insertion of the discipline in the
curriculum, its stability and decline. The focus is on the organization of the
school subjects built by the pair heritage-environment. The conclusion is that
the organization of this Educational Biology was based in the idea that the
educators should act in a double productive way: in one side, to direct the
students for the best physical and mental efficiency; in the other, to build ideal
outlines for shape the children, women and teacherss social behavior.
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