The teaching of social sciences in the "escolas normais" in alagoas: Trajectories, directions and dilemmas

Despite his recent return to school curricula, the social sciences have been remained since the nineteenth century in the curriculum of courses for teachers formation in Brazil, which, in principle, pointed to an attempt to modernize the curriculum, trying to make it more"scientific". In this paper, we try to detect which are pathways that lead teachers who teach sociology and anthropology ofeducation in the "Escolas Normais" of the state of Alagoas - since these disciplines are constituent parts of the minimum curriculum for the formation of teachers in the  level of the "Magistério" - to approach the social sciences, and what the meanings attributed to the teaching of such subjects by these teachers. Considering the peculiarity that the majority of teachers who teach such courses, especially in "Escolas Normais", have no training in social sciences, therefore, we seek to answer the following questions: such as teachers became teachers of social sciences, and what sociology (and anthropology) is taught by these "non-sociologists" (and"non-anthropologists").