INSTITUIÇÕES FEMININAS SALESIANAS E A FORMAÇÃO DE MULHERES VIRTUOSAS, POLIDAS E CONVICTAS RELIGIOSAS NO SUL DO ANTIGO MATO GROSSO (1942 – 1961)

Abstract

The research is part of the "Education, Culture, Society" line of research linked to the Group of Studies and Research in Anthropology and Sociology of Education - GEPASE/CNPq/UFMS, of the Postgraduate Program in Education, at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. The object of this dissertation is the cultural and social educational practices of the school institutions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in the south of the former Mato Grosso, in the period from 1942 to 1961. The general objective is to identify and map the female school institutions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians at national and regional level, in order to understand, in these practices, how the dispositions of the female gender habitus provided to girls from elite groups who studied at secondary school in the aforementioned school institutions were constituted. The period covered includes the expansion of the school institutions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in the Brazilian school field. The date 1961 marks the creation of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (LDB), which was responsible for the reduction of humanistic disciplines, turning to a technicist curriculum. The following sources of research were used: school documents from the institutions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, the school periodicals "Ecos Juvenis", journalistic sources on female education, and national and regional documents on secondary education, as well as the works of my friends and colleagues. The sources were analyzed using the theoretical contributions of Pierre Bourdieu and his interlocutors such as Carvalho (2004), Nogueira and Nogueira (2004), Gonçalves (2008), among others, and the categories of habitus, field, capital and gender habitus were mobilized. The results showed that secondary education marks the gender and class distinctions reproduced in school institutions in Brazil. Salesian women's institutions in Brazil were mapped, and two schools were identified in the south of the former Mato Grosso: school Imaculada Conceição/Corumbá and school Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora/Campo Grande. When we analyzed the systematic review (SR), we noticed that the Postgraduate Programs in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (PPGEdu/UFMS) and the Federal University of Mato Grosso (PPGEdu/UFMT) stood out with more academic productions related to the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in the Midwest region. We understand that educational, cultural and social practices, together with religious practices, structured a female gender habitus and engendered feminine dispositions such as virtuousness, politeness and religious conviction in young women from elite groups who studied at the aforementioned institutions in the south of the former Mato Grosso.