ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the possibilities of a study in which failure is the emulator of historical narrative. Created in 1858 and targeted at primary teachers, the journal proposed to compensate the exclusively pedagogical bias of publications by the Ministry of Public Instruction, offering teachers a journal of a political, pedagogical and practical nature. The issue of the calligraphic model was of a minor importance, circumscribed to the pedagogical debate. Brazilian authors, as well as foreign ones, such as H. Kiddle, T. Harrison and N. A. Calkins, were published by the Revista Pedagogica between 1890 and 1891. The Universal Expositions, which had been organised since 1851 in various countries around Europe, and in the USA, served as a magnet for educators from all over the world, and as a showcase for pedagogical innovations. The innovations that achieved success and managed to resist historical time, leaving their marks, constitute a school memory, permanently investigated because it is conceived as founding pedagogical evolution.
