A educação das meninas em Pelotas: a cultura escolar produzida no Internato Confessional Católico do Colégio São José

Abstract

This thesis proposes to characterize the school culture produced in the female confessional boarding school called St. Joseph in the city of Pelotas, analyzing its foundation and the repercussions of the educational project developed in that context. Promoting the upbringing of "docile, well educated and Christian girls" in line with the Catholic and hygienist family model, own of the first decades of the twentieth century, this culture simultaneously reproduced the existing social relations, also provided loopholes to the construction of a resistance behavior. From the understanding of the relationship between State, Church and Education, I assume the Historiography as the theoretical-methodological approach to the implementation of this research. Through the use of triangulation of plural sources - the architecture of boarding school and its furniture, the uniforms, the Registration Books of Externato and Boarding school, the rules, the minutes of the Associations linked to the institution, some ads in local newspapers, private papers of Religious Congregation, photographs and narratives of ex-boarders and religious women who worked at the boarding - I try to understand how this culture was incorporated by the boarder students. The theoretical foundations are based on Certeau (2007), Goffman (1973, 1999), Julia (2001) and Magalhães (1998), aiming to achieve a work of uncovering and understanding of the past. The research showed that the educational project engendered by the Sisters of St. Joseph had a resonance in the local community, to beyond the formative obligatory subject , this training provided a sociopolitical education articulated in the interactions arising from charity work. I conclude from these findings that, in addition to the human and Christian upbringing of their own confessional institutions, school culture of Boarding Confessional Catholic College St Joseph allowed the formation of a female education in tune with the Brazilian sociocultural transformations.