A educação do corpo como parte do processo civilizatório no final do século XIX: a formação de um perfil no Colégio do Caraça/MG

Abstract

This study aims to understand the education of the body as part of the civilizing process at the end of the nineteenth century: the formation of a profile within the educational project in the Colégio do Caraça/MG. The central point of the study was the 1892 manuscript De Modestia, a document that has not yet been published or studied. To do this, it was necessary to set specific objectives. The first one was to locate the document in time and space. At this point, we presented the context of the Empire and the Province of Minas Gerais and the chronology based on the educational regiment created after the independence. In another section, we presented the Colégio do Caraça. The second specific objective was to find, in the Lancaster Method, expressed in the law, the justification for the practice of punishments considered fundamental for the education of the body in the period proposed in the research. In these two parts, a qualitative study was carried out based on a literature review, seeking the contextualization of the History of Education in researchers such as Luciano Mendes Faria Filho and Dermeval Saviani. The contributions of the researchers Mariza Andrade, José Ferreira Carrato, and José Tobias Zico were essential for getting closer to the object of study, the Colégio do Caraça. In the third specific objective, the research focused on the primary document, De Modestia, which characterizes the basic research developed using the Historic Philological Method, as proposed by the author Livio Rosetti, in order to discuss the education of the body as part of the civilizing process within the educational project of the Colégio do Caraça. This research is linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, PPGE, under the research line - Educative Foundations and Practices, called Education and Society. The research is part of the project developed by the Studia Brasiliensia research group.