Abstract
ABSTRACT This is the trajectory of the Santa Teresa Asylum created in the Province of Maranhão in 1855, exposing its institutional purposes of sheltering, protecting, supporting and educating orphans. This paper was described the school practices inside this educational space. The text talks about the nature feminine formation directing to the domestic jobs of the aristocracy of Maranhão or take care of the home, the husband and children. It was prepared from the exploration of handwritten sources, articles published in newspapers, reports from the directors of the establishment in question and the presidents of the Province and the bibliography produced in the support and instruction of poor and helpless girls from Maranhão.
Highlights
This is the trajectory of the Santa Teresa Asylum created in the Province of Maranhão in 1855, exposing its institutional purposes of sheltering, protecting, supporting and educating orphans
During the life cycle of the Asylum of Santa Teresa, eighteen students were married and those who did not remain single, when they were dismissed from the institution, exercised the profession of primary teachers, as we attested in the report that Sotero dos Reis showed to the President of the Province when the students were transferred to the Recollection of Annunciação and Remédios15, in 1870
In its fourteen years of operation, it was the privileged place of female education maintained by the provincial coffers, which, on the one hand, served as a shelter and protection from the “luckless,” on the other hand, contributed to the inclusion of women in activities of the male universe how to know how to read, write and count, which, in addition to domestic gifts, how to sew, and embroider made possible their presence and insertion in public spaces
Summary
This is the trajectory of the Santa Teresa Asylum created in the Province of Maranhão in 1855, exposing its institutional purposes of sheltering, protecting, supporting and educating orphans. Regarding the admission of black children, unlike the Casa dos Educandos Artífices, where no 1885 regulation prohibited their entry, in the Asylum of Santa Teresa this restriction does not appear, as stated in the director's letters to the President of the Province11.
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