THE TEACHER AMARO CAVALCANTI AND A CEARÁ PRESS: A READING OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE BRAZILIAN EMPIRE

ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze the process of construction of the figure of Amaro Cavalcanti, a Latin teacher and lawyer provisioned in the city of Baturité, as an intellectual at the end of the 19th century, through his actions and speeches published in the press of Ceará, more specifically in the periodical Cearense. To obtain the largest search goal, more reports on the education system of the United States of America and the proposed reform for Ceará, such as changes of functions and higher loads on the public scene. Identifying the itinerary of Amaro Cavalcanti in the periodicals can understand his network of sociability and his actions in the field of education, so that the press is configured as an instrument of construction and legitimation of the intellectual and, at the same time, means of spreading the phenomenon of public education in the province of Ceará.