"Precisa de tratamento e de repouso": as práticas educativas da saúde nas escolas de aprendizes marinheiros da Paraíba e do Rio Grande do Norte (1855-1933)

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how health education was established in the Sailor Apprentice Schools between 1855 and 1933. The time frame begins in 1855, with the creation of the first regulations for the Sailor Apprentice Companies through Decree No. 1517, of January 4, 1855, after the emergence of the Rio de Janeiro Company, which belonged to the Court, and ends in 1933, the year in which the last - of this first half of the twentieth century - regulation of the Sailor Apprentice Schools was published with Decree No. 22,400, of January 26, 1933. These schools were founded to provide training and manpower for the Brazilian Navy. In this study, I present efforts on the history of the body, mind and health of the Sailor Apprentice Schools in Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, where I enhance the discussion about these scenarios, which at the time were inhospitable, unpleasant and hostile. As a theoretical contribution, I use as my main concepts: Health Education based on Ariadne Ecar, Ricardo Batista and André Mota (2022); Discipline postulated by Michel Foucault (2014); and Educational Culture in accordance with what Antonio Carlos Ferreira Pinheiro (2009) discussed. We chose as our method the discourse analysis presupposed by Michel Foucault (2008), which allowed me to organize what can be said, what can be considered to have a desire for truth, what is logical or makes sense to be written among the tangle of statements. In short, this work aims to understand the implementation of health education in these two institutions, containing unpublished writings on Health Education at the Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte Sailor Apprentice Schools.