Alice de Azevedo Monteiro e a educação das crianças pequenas na Paraíba: a criação dos primeiros jardins de infância e os escritos sobre infância na Revista do Ensino (1930-1942)

Abstract

The present work has as its theme Alice de Azevedo Monteiro and the Paraíba Teaching The present work has as its theme Alice de Azevedo Monteiro and the Paraíba Teaching Journals of the 1930s and early 1940s. Alice Monteiro worked in the creation and maintenance of two kindergartens, having been a journalist and teacher. The main objective was to map the articles on childhood and child in the Revista do Ensino in Paraíba from the 1930s and 1940s. Also: explore Alice Monteiro's life trajectory as a teacher, as well as her contributions to early childhood education; and investigate the history of kindergartens in Brazil and Paraíba. The historical outline of the research had as its starting point the year 1930 when Alice de Azevedo Monteiro began her career in the construction of kindergartens in Paraíba and the final date was the year 1942 date of the last journal of the researched and probably the year of death. From the teacher. The main source was the journals, as these can help the researcher to understand the movement of ideas of the period, as well as the daily political and educational projects, which were the subject of dispute in society. It also worked as a source for photographs of kindergartens that made important contributions to think about the activity rooms in which the children studied. By going through the writings about childhood and about children in the Revista do Ensino, we tried to contribute to the writing of childhood history in Brazil and, specifically, in Paraíba, bringing up the subjects who worked in the education of children. In Paraíba there was a large proliferation of kindergartens in the 1930s and the writings on childhood were mapped during this period. Early childhood education was perceived as necessary for the nation and was linked to the preparation of children for the first letters and their formation as future citizens.