Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Carla  and  MARTINS, Maria do Carmo. Educating Babies: Representations of Childhood through Material Elements, in the Early Twentieth-Century. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.82, pp.323-346.  Epub Apr 05, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num82-10808.

This article presents the historicity of early childhood educational practices in the beginning of the twentieth century. The purpose of the study is to understand how baby care items with the emerging institutional dynamics of the period, built education scenarios of young children. Starting from the materiality found in the collection of a nursery in the city of São Paulo, and in dialogue with the Brazilian historiography of early childhood education, we emphasize the need to refine the theoretical methodological approaches to a history to be realized from children's material culture. When the materiality of the nursery was analysed, it was possible to perceive that institution, as a social innovation, is structured in convergence with other childcare services of the time. Lastly, we highlight the representations about some institutions that started to share with families the commitment of baby education and care, in line with the projects of nation development and social future at that time.

Keywords : Educational history; early childhood education; cultural education; childcare centers; resource materials.

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