Infância e recolhimento: a educação profissional em Fortaleza na segunda metade do século XIX

Abstract

This thesis has as it's study object the implantation of professional education institutions in the city of Fortaleza (CE), between the years 1856 and 1885, approximately. Three recollection and professionalization institutions of poor and orphaned children were analyzed: The Colégio de Educandos Artifíces, the Companhia de Aprendizes Marinheiros and the Colégio da Imaculada Conceição. Through the analysis of official documents (Reports, Population Censuses, orphans guardianship’s books, offices from the Provincial Presidency), as well as extensive research in periodicals from that period and also based on memories and novels from that time, it was intended to analyze the daily life of those institutions, the dynamics of the recollection, the political tensions that permeated the State's treatment of poor children and the many ways of thinking and doing child labor in eighteenth-century Ceará. The general objective of this study was to understand the political project of disciplinarization and qualification of child labor in the second half of the nineteenth century, highlighting the action of the boys and girls who were reaped in dialogue with