Formando mães e do lar : a disciplina escolar economia doméstica no curso ginasial da Escola Normal Rural Murilo Braga (1955-1961)

Abstract

This research has as its object of study the school discipline Domestic Economics, taught in the gymnasium course of the Rural Normal School Murilo Braga (ENRMB), between the years 1955 and 1961, a period of inclusion and disappearance of this discipline in the school curriculum of the institution. Its main objective is to analyze the aforementioned discipline in the ENRMB gymnasium course, with emphasis on the contents taught. This work is justified by the importance of expanding the debate on this discipline in the formation of high school women's youth, as well as contributing to discussions on curriculum, history of school subjects, female education and history of education in Sergipe. The theoretical framework is based on the concept of school subjects analyzed in the light of the studies of André Chervel (1990), as well as dialogues with the concept of curriculum examined from the historical perspective of the contributions of Ivor Goodson (1997 and 2001). Following a methodological path of the History of Education research field in dialogue with the History of School Disciplines, which considered the documentary analysis of institutional sources from the collection of the Murilo Braga State College (CEMB), such as notebooks, recots, books, bulletins and other documents. The school discipline Domestic Economics was fundamental in the formation of Brazilian women during the time, reinforcing traditional gender roles and contributing to the construction of a specific female identity.