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| Author(s): |
Lúcia Pedroso da Cruz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação |
| Defense date: | 2014-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Helena Salgado Bagnato;
Maria de Fatima Guimarães;
Cristiane Pessoa da Cunha Lacaz;
Dirce Djanira Pacheco e Zan;
Mara Regina Martins Jacomeli
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| Advisor: | Maria Helena Salgado Bagnato |
| Abstract | |
The research investigates historical aspects of a Childcare Dispensary that operated from October 1933 to late 1959 in Campinas, São Paulo. This study focused in a timeframe spanning the 1930s and 1940s. Established during the administration of President Getúlio Vargas, the dispensary worked inside the former Bento Quirino Professional Institute, which offered various professional courses for unprivileged. The growth monitoring of children enrolled, prescriptions of behavior for mothers and nutritional orientations and personal hygiene of children and families, promoting contests of kids robustness, among other measures were designed to spread the concept of "sanitary conscience", according to the policies of the hygienists at that time. The vocational schools, designed to meet the unprivileged needs to be moralized by working, were therefore a very conducive environment to achieve the main proposes of Vargas administration: stronger race, strong people, productive people. Produce a version of the story of the Professional School Bento Quirino¿s Childcare Dispensary, since its inception in October 1933 until its deactivation and discuss the possible reasons for deactivation as an attachment of the Professional School, through liaison with the educational policies and health in the above-mentioned timeframe are objectives of this study. Photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings and archives are among the key documents that serve as sources for research. Contributions in the field of history and about photography as documents and policy instruments contribute to the analysis (AU) | |