Educação feminina batista no nordeste: a ação educacional de Martha Elizabeth Hairston no Seminário de Educadoras Cristãs de Recife (1953-1979)

Abstract

This study propose to examine the contribution of Martha Elizabeth Hairston for spreading your ideas in the Seminary of Christian Educators in the period 1953 -1979. The education of women in Northeast Brazil during this period was relegated to the background, which contributed to increasing rates of illiteracy in Brazil . The arrival of American missionaries and their policy of teaching reading and writing - aiming for people's participation in worship by reading the Bible and singing. These strategies have enabled the deployment of primary schools, normal schools and theological teaching. Martha Hairston took the ETC - An institution for female education - was intended to prepare young women to work in the schools attached to churches, schools Baptists , churches and as missionary . Therefore, the cultural representations present in the project Hairston were diversified, thus, it was possible to perceive them in pedagogical practices , curriculum , material conditions of work of the faculty , the construction of the new building , the implementation of new courses. So what representations and what practices were implemented in ETC / SEC? Curriculum that was chosen and what is its purpose? What was the project that Hairston presented to the Board of Richmond and Brazilian Baptists? In methodological terms used as historical sources institutional documents, such as reports, letters , decrees , opinions and decrees . We use the newspaper , yearbook ladies magazines ( The homeland for Christ The field is the world, Vision missionary ) , newsletter , brochures , letters , telegrams , books , monographs , dissertations and theses . The analytical categories were established by Chartier : ownership and representation, Dominique Julia , school culture , and Viñao Frago and Escolano architecture . We note that the SEC was maintained by the Board of Richmond and the Woman's Missionary Union Baptist Brazil. Our analyzes showed that Martha Hairston buildings built , deployed higher education , founded the Friendship House and gave visibility to the SEC , preparing young women to develop missionary work in Brazil and worldwide.