Poor childhood and its assistance in the twentieth century

Abstract

his study is constituted as part of the analyzes carried out on childhood and child during our doctoral training process, which discusses socio-educational education practices in Sao Luis, Brazil. So we aim to meet the children’s senses, their views, their care, their care and no education during the first decades of the twentieth century in Maranhao. Therefore we emphasize that our observations were built theoretical methodologically based on international literature, national, local, giving privilege to documentary sources with the use of a regular season. Considering the local singularities, that is to say that this study is based on theoretical approaches to the social history of childhood, associated with the understanding of the concepts of hygienism and eugenics, which methodologically subsidize the analysis of documentary sources. Thus, our study highlights the importance of creating social and educational welfare institutions, as well as the articulation of its purposes, the Republican progress project, urbanization and modernization of Brazil.