SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EDUCATORS AND DOCTORS ON EDUCATION AND EUGENICS IN PERIODICALS THAT CIRCULATED IN PERNAMBUCO (1929 TO 1934)

Abstract

This text aims to understand the social representations of educators and doctors about education, hygiene and eugenics present in periodicals which have circulated in Pernambuco in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This research is based on the concept of representation by Roger Chartier (1990) and the concept of eugenics presented by Nancy Leys Stepan (1991). We used as sources the Revista Medica de Pernambuco (Pernambuco Medical Journal), the report of the Board of Hygiene presented by Walmir Miranda in 1929, editions of the Diário de Pernambuco (Pernambuco Diary) in 1930 and the Bulletin of Eugenics in 1929. The data showed that education no longer cares only about the student's intellectual, but takes into consideration the constitutional or biological factors of the student. Considering these data, we concluded that concern with the school's physique was seen aswas a sense of responsibility to society. Consequently, it was necessary to rethink education and school spaces to prevent a potential from being lost.