Educação pela higiene: a invenção de um modelo hígido de educação escolar primária na Parahyba do Norte (1849-1886)

• Autor(a) principal: Mariano, Nayana Rodrigues Cordeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7765
• topic: Preceitos médico-higiênicos; Medical and hygienic precepts; Instrução primária; Parahyba do Norte; Primary education; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This thesis aims to discuss the invention of a healthy model of school education in primary education in Parahyba do Norte, during the period between 1849, moment of the publication of the first General Regulation of Primary Education, and 1886, launch period of the last Regulation dedicated to the instruction in the monarchical regime. During the research, I had contact with a range of documents, such as: newspapers, reports, laws, decrees, almanacs, magazines, school textbook and manuscripts. In this way, the thesis´ argument was built considering that, from the second half of the nineteenth century, the consolidation phase of the new nation, the establishment of the Brazilian/Parahyba school was in progress, and the precepts of the medical order were present in the process of schooling. Although Parahyba do Norte were dialoguing about what was being produced in the Court, the province had its own specificities as it was the case of the 1849 Regulation, rich in precepts derived from the medical order and that was pioneer in this type of regulation concerning that province, and at the same time, serving to guide other legislations in the period studied here. The local political elites showed them up in full action in this modeling and disciplining and regulatory strategies, embedded in a civilizing discourse, dictated standards for the urban space and, especially for school education. Thus, the cited Regulation, as the others that were being published during the period of this study, indicated the autonomy of the provincial political elite in relation to the central power, which noticed in the medical-hygienic speech, a possible way to join the "civilized" world. It was, therefore, in this way that the invention of a healthy model of school education has taken place. The work was regarded as a problem from the biopolitics category, discussed by Foucault as an institutional procedure of collective administration. With the population growth and the development of the cities, life in society brought transformations that called for interventions in order to manage the population. Consequently, the medicine, posing itself as one of the responsible for the building of the national state, made use of mechanisms of individualizing and generalizing intervention, radiating the norm within the miscellaneous spheres that formed the society. Thus, the medical precepts began to infuse standards ranging from the simple act of washing hands to orthopedic care of those who attended school. Diagnosing contagious diseases, guiding the materiality of the school building, indicating the care related to the body and clothes, prescribing gymnastics, showing the importance of vaccination and purging what was considered pernicious, that is, producing knowledge and power, the medical order was consolidating a healthy model for school education, which was trodden hand in hand with the provincial political elite, with the purpose of instructing, ordering and civilizing the population.