Between Poverty And Purity: The Education Of Devasted Girls In The Asylum Nossa Senhora De Lourdes (1879-1930) In Feira De Santana – Bahia.
Asylum Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, Unhelpless, Female Education, Feira de Santana
The Nossa Senhora de Lourdes’s Asylum, founded on March 15, 1879, and represented an important philanthropic institution in the city of Feira de Santana - Bahia, which sought to promote social assistance to the poor and helpless girls of the city in question. The main objective of the research was to analyze the educational characteristics of the teaching offered in this institution to young orphans, which consisted in the education of these girls to religious and vocational education. It also sought to understand the philanthropic importance of the asylum in question for the municipality. The period of the survey comprised the years from 1879, the date of the founding of the institution until 1930, that is, the end of the Second Reign and throughout the First Republic, a historical moment in which the republican bases were in the process of education was being reformulated in order to serve as the driving force behind the process of modernization and social civilization. The sources studied include the minutes of meetings of the asylum, the documents of the Sisters Sacramentinas and the Pia Union of the Daughters of Mary and some newspapers of the time, such as Folha do Estado and O Progresso. The research is located in the area of Social History. The term in reference is used by historians to demarcate a new moment in history, thus delimiting a new historiography from which there has been an expansion of the field of studies, sources and researches of historians. The central concepts that guided the writing of the dissertation were: that of the underprivileged, which according to GREIVE (2012) refers to the child living on the margins of society and who is poor, orphaned or from families that can not afford their livelihood. That of Educational Institutions, based on the contributions of SAVIANI (2008), which considers them as part of a historical process of a certain conjuncture. And the contributions of FOUCAULT (1987), when it highlights the process of punishment of people living on social margins, failing to punish and body and supervising it in a regulatory manner, based on the principle that people should have acceptable social behavior and framing them in disciplinary institutions is one way to achieve this. In this sense, the text bridges the concepts cited above, offering the reader a broader picture of education for abandoned children in the Nossa Senhora de Lourdes Asylum.