Trabalho, Divertimento e Escola: Elementos da história da infância em São Luis de Montes Belos - Go

Abstract

Education process of the childhood goes to different form in some aspects and similar in another aspects along generations. The integrated elements of these process are historically built, they can present remain and transformations in generation speeches. In this work, we investigate remain and transformations in the education of the childhood, through of the analysis of account childhood memories for three generations from miner migrant resident in the Sao Luis de Montes Belos city. We meet as education founder elements of these three generations of the work, the amusement and the school. These elements, although constituted of the childhood from every interviewee, by the presence or absence, they present specialties every generation and every narrative. We understand a relation of continuity along three generations, once the work, the amusement and the school spend for every, not identical form, but spending for reorientation, overcoat into third generation. For each generation, they gain a meaning, a place, a function, in accordance with the context socio-historic in which the people were inserted. Every generation had a particular form to live itself and to educate the children, being this expression and at the same time the structuring of the very same culture. This way characterized itself for relative practices to the work, to the amusement and to the school. These practices carried of meanings, to found itself in representations about the child and childhood, who lift up of the narrative about three researched generations. Sometime the work, sometime school, or both, are taken as central elements in the preparation from the child to the adult life. The amusement, in turn, in the context of each generation, or it presented itself as a practice not straight connected this preparation, or it found itself between middle to the central elements of this process work and/or school, or still it constituted itself at a right of the child and at a necessity of the childhood. We took as reference theoretical and the lead of this research about study of BOSE (2003), LE GOF (1996), QUEIROZ (1998), BENJAMIN (1987 E 2002), BRETAS (1991), SILVA (2001), SOUSA (2001), PRIORE (2005), VALDEZ (1999 e 2003), ARIÉS (2006), HEYWOOD (2004), LEONTIEV (2004), VIGOTSKY (1998 e 2004), BARBOSA (1997), ROUSEAU (2004), LEWIS (1961), CARVALHO (1995), ALMEIDA (2007), MARQUES, NEVES E NETO (2002) e PINSKY (2005), etc. A careful analysis about interviews, joint by reference theoretical built, it let us to structure this study, which can to contribute for a discussion about childhood and their education.