Invitation to re-think school material culture

Abstract

The essay raises the necessity to revise the accumulated academic production over the past few decades about the denominated material culture of the school in order to endow new historiographical approach greater epistemic and intellectual rigor that transcends the ethnographic prospects of the history of formative practices. Legitimizing the material as a source of the school’s empirical culture and of the teaching profession´s artisan habitus, the present work aims a more sincere and realistic historiography that combines ethnohistory with hermeneutics under an anthropological angle, at the same time as plurithopic, that gives access to the clarification of the discourses underlying the experiences related to human formation and its codes of sociability.