"THE INSTRUCTION CASTLE"; Educational practices of a women's confessional college in the city of Barbacena-MG (1900-1940).
Educational practices. Women teachers training. Catholic education. Women.
This work aims to identify, understand and analyze the educational practices carried out in the
normal course of Colégio Imaculada Conceição, located in the city of Barbacena – MG, in the
period between 1900 and 1940, in order to understand how the formation of girls, future
teachers, worked in this confessional institution. The research is justified both by the
uniqueness of the institution and researched sources, as well as by its contribution to
investigations on “educational practices” within a Catholic institution. The methodology
consists of a bibliographic research, reading, selection, and research in institutional historical
sources and local periodicals, as well as the consultation of the historiography that deals with
the following themes: women, women teachers educational training, Catholicism and
educational practices throughout the history of Brazilian education. The results show that
there are no works related to the researched educational institution, Colégio Imaculada
Conceição, as well as there are few that analyze educational practices in Catholic confessional
schools. The reading and analysis of the documentation allowed the identification of
educational practices related to the constitution of a femininity profile of the students, with
great emphasis on manual work, the discipline within the institution, as well as understanding
the strategy used by Colégio Imaculada Conceição to adapt to the New School speeches over
the years. In view of this investigation, it was possible to verify the institution's concern with
women teachers training following an ultramontane, nationalist discourse, whose objective
was to train elite women and educators for the benefit of the nation and society.