A ESCOLA DE APRENDIZES MARINHEIROS DA PARAIBA E OS DISCURSOS EDUCATIVOS SOBRE UM PRÉDIO QUE JÁ NASCEU DOENTE

Abstract

This article aims to investigate how the materiality of the school space interfered in the educational practice of the Escola de Aprendizes Marinheiros da Paraíba in the first years of the twentieth century. This institution expanded throughout Brazil still in the Empire with the task of training poor and destitute children in sailors. As a boarding school, it offered a disciplinary routine, providing elementary, nautical and physical education responsible for training the bodies of apprentices. Methodologically, we used the discourse analysis from Michel Foucault (2014) in order to understand the wills of truth contained in the writings about that school. To this end, we analyzed the Copier of Craft Book (1908-1912), which contained complaints made by the school command about the lack of accommodation and a satisfactory environment for educational practices. We appropriated the categories of discipline by Michel Foucault (2018) and space-school by Agustín Escolano (1998), to understand the limitations of the school building and its location. It is concluded that the referred institution looked for ways to improve its facilities and adapted its teaching methods according to the current reality, aiming at the training of sailors in operation.