Reconstruindo uma experiência em educação infantil: a história do jardim de infância Suzana de Paula Dias (Uberlândia, 1967-1972)

Abstract

This dissertation is inserted in the Concentration of História Area and Historiography of the education. It presents the result of a research whose sources are public archives and the depositions bore by people - the Principal, teachers, former-studants and former- studant s parents. They had participated of a brief educational experience in the Uberlândia city, from 1967 to 1972. The research s objective was the reconstruction of the historical memory of this establishment of education for children. The execution about the field of activity was based on bibliographical revision, concerning the concept of infancy in the modernity. This stage made possible comprehend the birth of the childhood s conscience and, therefore, the appearing of the first institutions of education for children, that had resulted from the initiative of the modern and contemporarie pedagoues, initially in the kindergartens and later on nursery schools for laboring families. Another basic resource for the accomplishment of the considered objective was the thematic verbal history that beyond its proper richness, also served to spread light on school s documents, making possible the understanding on the reconstruction of the school s quotidian in all of its complexity. Another excellent research s source was AMAE Educando review. It had exerted large influence in the everyday of the Jardim de Infância [Kindergarten] Suzana de Paula Dias, being also adopted in the school planning, defining the pedagogical pratice in classroom. The gotten results elucidate the historical period when demand for preschool education acquires expression even to urge the public power for installation of kindergartens, restricted to the particular stablishments till then. Another significant data were the briefing of the pedagogical work as an innovation at that time. In short this research aims to contribute for the History of Education, in recovery the memory of education for children.