Matéria livre... espírito livre para pensar : um estudo das práticas abolicionistas em prol da instrução e educação de ingênuos na capital da província sergipana (1881-1884)

Abstract

This present study aims ay analyzing the contribuition of abolicionists from the State of Sergipe for the project of the nation s civilization, through practices of instruction and educational to naïve children. This research, delimited between the ages of 1881 to 1884, studies the educational laws of the imperial period and the aspects focused on and related to the primary instruction. It unveils the motives of the creation of an elementary teaching school and its pedagogical practices for the primary teaching to the naïve children capita of the Sergipe settlement destined to children as well as the pedagogical practices developed by the school. It identifies the profile of the Sociedade Libertadora Aracajuana Cabana do Pai Thomaz (1882) as a space for speeches, conferences, journalistic activities, delivery of emancipation letters and instruction to naïve children. It has also focused in this investiment, the role of the press and the usages made by its editors at the and of the nineteenth century. The theoreticmethodological for the study in question is supported in Roger Chartier, throught the notions of Representation an Appropriation, the concepts of Civilization by Norbert Elias, Cultura Escolar by Dominique Julia, Infância by Carlos Monarcha and the category Constructos Flutuantes by Clarice Nunes, Therefore, it treats about a study which focus on the set of pratices carried o9n by abolicionists from Sergipe for reaching goals of progress in Sergipe.