Memórias de infância e da escola: uma perspectiva literária

Abstract

This search shows an analysis about child representation and his childhoods in certain contexts and social Brazilian groups in the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It's a literary study, about the historical and sociological biases of childhood, having as an objective the apprehension of the child's individualization process and of his social categorization, through the process of formal and informal schooling that happens on family environment and school. As methodological procedures, we made use of the bibliographic search to the historical and sociological elaboration about the child and childhood conception, and to the literary search, we made use of the autobiographical works of José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos. The data obtained define a school civilizing character permeated by disciplinary practices and the school time as elements of standardization of the rules and civility to the children. As results, we seek to define the child's specificity and his interdependencies of behaviors in relation to adults, thus obtaining the comprehension of childhood stages and family formation and society formation.