The medical and hygienist discourse on childhood in the teacher training in the early decades of the 20th Century in the state of Santa Catarina

• Autor(a) principal: Marçal , Monica Teresinha
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Sganderla, Ana Paola, Carvalho, Diana Carvalho de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Linhas (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/linhas/article/view/20159
• topic: educação; infância; higiene; formação de professores; education; childhood; hygiene; teacher training.; educación; infancia; higiene; formación de profesores

This paper is aimed to understand how childhood is addressed in the medical and hygienist discourse in a teacher training school in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil in the early decades of the 20th century. For such, it was analyzed the syllabi of the Hygiene course taught at the Escola Normal [Teachers School] between 1919 and 1937. In 1935, the Escola Normal had its name changed to Instituto de Educação [Institute of Education]. Besides the syllabi, it was also examined papers published in Estudos Educacionais, a journal linked with the Instituto de Educação. Six issues were published between 1941 and 1946, and the authors were the institution’s students and teachers. The study conclusions indicate that the teaching of Hygiene was not restricted to the care of the body but was mixed with a project aiming to civilize and moralize the Santa Catarina people by means of education. Thus, the topics taught at the Teachers School should be conveyed in Elementary School to the children, parents, and community to which the school belonged. Initially, the teaching of Hygiene was strongly linked with the dissemination of information on body and family hygiene, as well as the prophylaxis of diseases. Gradually, the topics of the medical-hygienist discourse were centered on the follow up of the child’s biological development. The analyses confirm the idea that the childhood was the object of hygienic and disciplinary intervention, grounded on the scientific knowledge provided by the Sciences of Education, particularly Biology.