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Portugal education Portuguese education Santo Isidro de Pegões school
Portuguese Schools: Santo Isidro de Pegões School
Figure 1.--We see photos were taken in Santo Isidro de Pegões, a village about 50 kms from Lisbon. It is located on a pennsula near Setúbal. The region is now best known for marvelous red wines--promoted as wines with character. The Portuguese government established a model farming community (1952-58). The Government took a pre-existing settlement and totally rebuilt it. Every family received a brand new home. A new school were built where boys and girls could be taught separately. Notice how common plaid shirts were. We are not sure why this was the case, but notice that plaid was popular among boys in the families of fishermen.
We see photos were taken in Santo Isidro de Pegões, a village about 50 kms from Lisbon. It is located on a pennsula near Setúbal. The region is now best known for marvelous red wines--promoted as wines with character. The Portuguese government established a model farming community (1952-58). The Government took a pre-existing settlement and totally rebuilt it. Every family received a brand new home. A new school were built where boys and girls could be taught separately. A dispensary was set up and physician made regular visits. A Catholic Church was opened. The model village and schools were for landless peasant familiess and the goal was to put the Salazasr regime in a better light. The curiculm was a little different than the generall more academic with practical casses. We see the girls given lesson about house care and the boys about agriculture, specifically about different sorts of ground. This is not unlike schools in the United States which included practical skills in the curiculum. Here agriculture is in the curiuculkm. In American schools, shop (mechanics) and carpentry were more common.
