secondary teaching in Brazil. Examples of this kind of pedagogy were gathered at the places
where it was applied and legitirnized by teachers and historians arRio de Janeiro and São
Paulo, between the last decade ofthe monarchic regime and ear1y years of the second
Republic. Here, the experience of the intellectual Jonathas Serrano (1855/1944) 1s
highI1ghted-a History teache r, historian, writer of school books and a member of …