Some notes for the analysis of primary education during the first years of Salazarism

Abstract

This article is to be the first of a short series of texts where shall be examined the evolution of primary education in Portugal, during the thirties, relating it to the development both of capitalism and Portuguese fascism. The main items to be approached refer to the first education law system of the «Estado Novo», to the purposes expected of primary schooling and to the contents of such teaching. Its most significant ideological aspects are underlined in short synthesis.