Viveiros, Kilza Fernanda Moreira deSilva, Jefferson Melo da2023-05-102023-05-102022-02-25SILVA, Jefferson Melo da. Orfanato Padre João Maria: práticas e representações de uma instituição socioeducativa no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (1920 - 1930). Orientador: Kilza Fernanda Moreira de Viveiros. 2022. 127f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Centro de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/52305This study aims to analyze the institution of the Father João Maria Orphanage and the guiding principles of the assistance practices and its cultural representations to the society from 1920 to 1930, in the city of Natal/RN. The Father João Maria Orphanage was an institution to assist poor female children, founded from Decree Nº 118, of May 25, 1920, signed by the then Governor Antônio José de Mello e Souza, as pointed out in the governmental message of the current year. In this perspective, we seek to analyze the space from a macro-structure that allows us to investigate the Orphanage and its practices from the social, political and religious observation of the studied period, in view of the reverberating civilizing and hygienist discourse (GONDRA, 2004); (GÓIS JÚNIOR, 2014) existing in the social daily life that sought to guide the practices and representations of a new formation of modern men and women. Considering this context, the guiding question of our investigation was: What are the guiding principles of the social and educational practices of the Padre João Maria Orphanage and what are its representations to the society of Natal? The answer was only possible through the methodological organization that consisted of a documental analysis (ARÓSTEGUI, 2004); (BLOCH, 2001) and bibliographical analysis in the field of historiography, whose path directed us to the discussion of the categories: practices (CERTEAU, 2012) and representations (CHARTIER, 2002; BOURDIE, 2008), through them we analyzed the sources and the narratives in them, discussing concepts of body (FOUCAULT, 1979; 1987), of civilization (ELIAS, 1994; THOMPSON, 1981; 1998), of women (PRIORE, 2004; PERROT, 2007), of poverty (VIVEIROS, 2016) and of assistance (MARCÍLIO, 2008; RIZZINI; RIZZINI, 2004). Among the possible documental sources of investigation, this research is based on the governmental messages from the years 1920 to 1930, delivered in the Legislative Assembly of the state in the current years and the internal regulation of the institution, which presents the organizational and functional directions of the orphanage, allowing us to understand the political and social dynamics and their reverberations within the space. With this research we concluded that the Padre João Maria Orphanage was an important instrument of support and assistance to poor girls in Rio Grande do Norte and that in its practices of restraint and moralization of the inmates were imbricated sociopolitical influences that configured it as a device of maintenance of the social order, Thus, with the analyses we accomplished the initial goal of this research and we consider that from this research it will be possible to build new studies that seek to deepen the institutional analysis and insert this important socio-educational institution in the pages of the historiography of Rio Grande do Norte, a space that was previously denied.Acesso AbertoHistória da educaçãoOrfanato Padre João MariaHigienismoMulher pobreSócio educaçãoRio Grande do NortemasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO