A mulher de posses e a instrução elementar na capitania de Sergipe del Rey nos anos setecentos

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Vera Maria dos
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4583
• topic: História da educação; Instrução elementar; Órfão menor; Mulher de posse; Capitania de Sergipe Del Rey; Woman; History of education; Elementary school; Underage orphan; Women of possessions; Sergipe Del Rey captaincy; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

Under the atmosphere of civilization and knowledge, wealthy women from Sergipe Del Rey Captaincy didn´t live recluse. After their husbands deaths, they took charge of the responsibilities and got involved with tasks related to the men´s world and, therefore, surrounded by a hale of a patriarchal power, acted out activities that were beyond their houses. Therefore, they administrated mills, stills, sites, plantations, commanded slaves and traded goods. Some of those women had someone else signing for them, others wrote down their own names on their husbands inventories and some others were the tutors of their own children, considered orphans, who were under twenty five years old. Under the 18th Law, the female tutors raised and educated their children, underage orphans, with love and care. This way, the woman guaranteed a family heritage and the Portuguese Crown, together with Justice, put all sergipanos under the new modern nation project. Consequently, all (family and the power of the Portuguese Crown) were on the same wavelength to keep up with this new established order. In Sergipe Del Rey there were four elementary school models, that went on in the 18th century, from 1575 to 1799, period in which the documents that based this research were analyzed. The first model was called indoctrination or instruction through spoken language , taught by the Franciscan and Carmelites to the Indian and sergipanos settlers´ children. The second one that was found was the women´s enclosure , in 1743, that was one of the education options given to the women of possessions at that time. These two models were used in the period when the Jesuits were in charge of the education and ruled it. The third model, called primary school classes or primary school teaching worked from the time the Jesuits were expelled in 1759 to 1792. The fourth model highlighted was the teaching to its own gender , indicated to the underage orphan girls, registered from 1752 to 1792. These two last models are related to Pombal s administration and go on until the Marian one. I point out that it was during Pombal s administration that meaningful changes happened in the educational process in the Portuguese kingdom, from 1759 on. Pombal did not break up with the Church established order. He substituted the Jesuits educational action for a new rational dynamic that still respects the Church hierarchy, but subordinates it to the State. Those educational practices went on until the adult life and could be related to school or not and had as their objective to reach especially the ones who were wealthy.