A educação doméstica em São Luís na Segunda metade do Século XIX

Abstract

The primary objective of this work is to study domestic education in São Luís in the second half of the nineteenth century, given the interest in maintaining a certain social differentiation between the elites and the lower strata of the population, as well as how this portion of wealthy people intended to educate boys and girls. And because the issues related to the family and the relationships that unfold around educational issues stand out so much at that time, we present this study seeking to show the meanings of domestic education in the nineteenth century, the agents who guided this education, parents, teachers, and tutors. how to highlight the practice of this education in São Luís during this period. In our surveys on the subject, we verified this approach in official documents around the education of children and the family's duty to particularly instruct their children. These propositions are contained in regulations, speeches by authorities of the time, newspapers from the second half of the 19th century, literary works that provided us with subsidies for the conclusion of our research.