Childhood and civilizing education in literature brazilian - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v34i2.16168

Abstract

This search shows an analysis about child representation and his childhoods in certain contexts and social Brazilian groups in the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It’s a literary study, about the historical and sociological biases of childhood, having as an objective the apprehension of the child’s individualization process and of his social categorization, through the process of formal and informal schooling that happens on family. The methodological procedure used the literature, choosing literary and autobiographical essays of Brazilian literature, represented by José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos. The analysis showed on the character in this civilizing process of schooling the child represented by the disciplinary practices and the construction of school time as elements of standardization of rules, behaviors and civility for children. The final considerations shows to understand the specifics of childhood as a historical period and social education of individuals, considering their dependence relationships and interdependencies, according Norbert Elias. Thus as implicit relational power between adults and children in areas of formation social groups.