This thesis, analyzed the educational aspects with a broader approach during the Grão-Pará colonisation, which started with the foundation of the Forte do Presépio in 1616, and extended until the end of the pombalino period in 1777. The sources used for this research included written records of regional writers, including jusuit priests who were eyewitnesses to the events, and history books related to this theme. Colonisation, catecheses and education are seen as directry related to each other, articuiated in a broader process which brought the development and expansion of captaiism. Moved by the need to expand their territories and commercial networts, and at the same time by religious interests, settlers from the 'Old World' launched themselves to the seas and accomplished the so-called 'Great Discoveries'. In the 'New World' the highly unequalled cultures clashed. The settler's intentions were to modify habits and believesof the native people in order to better serve their interests. It was necessery to make them 'civilized'. Thus, the relationship between settiers and native people had an important role in the educational process. The catecheses not only served to bring the indians to the catholich faith, but also to introduce the apropriated behavior that would correspond to the econemic interests. The educational process worked like na ideologic element disaggragating the way of life of the native people, reorganizing the knowledge, the ability to do and the power, contributing for theinsertion of Brazil in the g,roup of suppliers of goods and wealth which afforded a build up of capitais by the european bourgeoisie. There was also some schooling, but limited to a few people, reproducing and reinforcing the priviledges and the social framework of that period.
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