Abstract

FERREIRA, Rosângela Veiga Júlio  and  ROCHA, Marlos Bessa Mendes da. A obra educacional de Cecília Meireles: um compromisso com a infância. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2010, vol.32, n.01, pp.93-103. ISSN 2178-5201.

The present text is the result of analyses of a research study supported in the interpretation of the journalistic work of educator Cecília Meirelles, produced from 1930 to 1933 and published in the Diário de Notícias newspaper. The hermeneutic exercise in this investigative work, from 827 chronicles and 148 news stories published in A Página, made it possible to remark that the Cecilian contest supported itself in two axes: Education and Childhood, focusing on her concern about instructing and forming adults in the family, school and government on the specificities that involved the child education process in the Escola Nova ideas. The concept of childhood defended by her sustains itself in the possibilities of respecting this notion based on the living conditions experienced by the children, seeing them as concrete beings placed historically and geographically in a diverse space.

Keywords : Cecília Meireles; Press; Education; Childhood.

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