The upside down norm: indolent, vagrants, imprudent and others scholar types

Abstract

This paper analyses the reports between children and scholar norms, using as its main resource a text published in Voz da Escola, scholar review of grupo escolar Ennes de Souza, in 1930. Based on ideas of Foucault, Radcliffe-Brown, DaMata and Certeau, some ways by which children make up and transform the rules of school living were researched. The article intends to apprehend some of the dimensions of the children culture in school. The concern with the issue of the children’s scholar culture has arise in the context of an confluence between history and anthropology studies. The paper also intend to apprehend how the children appropriate the scholar culture. To such purpose, the concept of practice and of jocosity are focused in an attempt to establish the strengthening of the approach realised here. Finally, the article draws attention to some of the dimensions of the Brazilian public education in the 30’.