La higiene corporal como tiempo y lugar para la educación: los preceptos de higiene en el plan de estudios a grupos escolares en el estado de Paraná/Brasil

Abstract

This work intends to discuss, by analysis of a varied data, the way rhetoric of moral, hygiene, and civilization achieved the bodies of students and their education as the most meaningful element to the school group model affirmation. A model took as the medium of integral formation project for Brazilian youth along the first two decades of the XXth century. Such precepts referred to hygiene as an element that was ought to prevail in the new age and space of schools, in a deeply relation to the phenomenon of school groups, the height of teaching modernization that also reached Brazil at late 19th and early 20th century. The debates were recorded in pedagogic and diary press, documents like reports and mails or materialized in didactic material and teaching codes of public school system; such debates followed reasons that aimed to warrant public investment on knowledge and resources for formulation and implantation of a complex of gadgets that ought to educate the bodies of students by implant of hygienic precepts.