Assistência e a educação de meninas desvalidas no Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo na Província do Grão-Pará (1860 -1889)

Abstract

This research aims to rescue the social and educational history of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo, a public institution that cared for children in the poor province of Grão- Pará, in the period 1860 to 1889. Created to educate, house and educate poor girls, that institution was founded on a politics of sanitization and establish order in the province of Pará, because many children lived and slept in the streets, alleys and slums. Thus, the questions that guide this study are: What significance the institution Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo was to society in Pará period 1860-1889? What educational purpose, political and social had with the maintenance of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo? What conception of childhood helplessness is present in the documents of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo? What educational activities have been implemented in the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo? To try to answer these questions the main objective of this study is to understand the instruction given in the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo for the helpless children in the province of Grão-Pará between the years 1860 to 1889. Therefore, from this main objective we will: (1) understand the significance of education for underprivileged children in the province of Grão-Pará between the years 1850 to 1889, the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparosociety to Pará, (2) verifying the conception of childhood helplessness in the documents of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo, (3) examine the educational activities implemented at the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Amparo in the instructions for underprivileged children. The corpus of the research covers approximately six hundred and sixty documents that were raised in the Arquivo Público de Belém and the Biblioteca Pública Arthur Vianna (CENTUR), from which we selected, for hours, the documents refer to the Statute of 1868, the Internal Rules, 1869, reports from the ombudsman's College, an application for admission and resignation of the college girls and others. The analysis will give the light of history Cultural theorized by Chartier, who understands how cultural practices not only produce a text, or a mode of teaching, but also the ways in a society, how men live, eat, dress, talk and keep silent. The data reveal that this college was creating as provincial as to sanitize the city and prevent the girls hanging around the streets stay helpless and so it was possible to give them a primary training activities with reading, writing, calligraphy, arithmetic and grammar, and moral and religious guidance. There was also a domestic education for underprivileged girls when they leave the Amparo could get a "good" marriage. We also note that the college operated a pedagogical model disk with severe punishment.