Abstract

SILVA, Samara Mendes Araújo. Rites, Rituals and Routine: Feminine Education in Catholic Confessional Schools in the Twentieth Century. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.70, pp.117-136. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.58767.

By sharing the process of formation of the new generations, the responsibility to teach other social codes to those who would become responsible for the maintenance and transformation of the dynamics of society was shared with educational institutions. Those institutions have commitments, such as offering technical and scientific knowledge based on principles validated by the society in which they are inserted. Brazilian society has belatedly shared with the school the task of training the new generations because of the "development model" adopted. Throughout the national history, access to formal education has only been considered a right recently, especially when it refers to the female portion of the population. Although full access was only achieved later, formal education in Brazil was available in a form, mainly in confessional schools (mostly catholic). In catholic schools during the twentieth century, in addition to the curricular content, there were diverse activities in the routine of the neophytes under their auspices to form character, and their sacred and intellectual conduct. Those activities delineated marks in the memories of those who experienced them or watched them sporadically. Using foundations of cultural history, we collected and analyzed fragments of memories (oral reports) and photographs of former students who attended the Saviniano schools (which taught only the feminine gender) until the 1970s, in Piauí, in order to analyze elements present in catholic schools and to demonstrate, from the school rituals, the constitution of school culture and its maintenance of along the life trajectory of the graduates.

Keywords : Feminine Education; Confessional Education; Catholic Education; School Culture; School Rituals..

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