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- Title
For the history of childhood education in Portugal: The case of Bragança (1934-1986).
- Authors
CASTANHEIRA, Manuel Luis Pinto
- Abstract
This thesis aims primarily at developing and extending the historical knowledge on the reality of early childhood education in the town of Bragança. It is intended to contribute to preserve local educational heritage and memory, by treasuring historical education in current society. This research intends to fulfil an existent gap: the lack of data and knowledge about the education of 3 to 6 year-old children. The answer is given by means of a study on the several kindergartens that were active from 1934 - when the first official kindergarten in Bragança closed down- until 1986, when the first Framework Law on Education was published and the network of kindergartens started to expand in Portugal. The collection and systematic processing of data has been carried out on existing documentary series in several archives. These centres of primary sources are most of them limited to Bragança, even though research in other regions hasn't been neglected for cross checking data. Focusing on a general pedagogical viewpoint, the problem raised here falls within the history of early childhood education in Portugal, where the main theses are recorded, and in the municipality of Bragança in particular. This research is believed to be crucial to understand kindergarten teachers and other teachers' training. The thesis research paradigm is part of a hermeneutic standpoint that comprises qualitative and multidimensional interpretation methodologies and an extensive heuristic work and documentary analysis. Results show that the society of Bragança has managed to organise itself, by opening several kindergartens, despite the opposition of the Estado Novo (New State) to the expansion of this type of teaching. Kindergartens' creation process was mainly due to private initiative, strongly upholding an educational and supportive framework, guided also by the key role of the Church.
- Subjects
BRAGANCA (Portugal); EARLY childhood education -- History
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p364
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract