Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil
This paper discusses the senses and meanings attributed to physical culture, its conceptions, functions, and role within nineteenth-century Brazil’s educational system. By focusing on diverse kinds of schools as spaces of reference for children and adolescents and the efforts to shape their bodies,...
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This paper discusses the senses and meanings attributed to physical culture, its conceptions, functions, and role within nineteenth-century Brazil’s educational system. By focusing on diverse kinds of schools as spaces of reference for children and adolescents and the efforts to shape their bodies, this work analyzes the importance of youth for national projects and how educators tried to represent young ideal bodies in school curricula as they made the transition from infancy to adulthood. It also shows how the body is a complex web of ideas and representations, a territory fought over within state institutional spaces. By understanding the “new behaviors” that the modern state wished to promote, the present paper focuses on how physical education shaped health and hygiene conditions through bodily exercises and the pivotal role played by schools within the strategy to transform young students into healthy, strong, disciplined citizens ready to serve the nation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5c8921e5867b40dc8cfeddbec32d47282023-03-08T14:52:04ZengCâmara Municipal de LisboaCadernos do Arquivo Municipal2183-31762022-07-011810.48751/CAM-2022-1878Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century BrazilTiago Fernandes Maranhão0Loyola University New Orleans, United States This paper discusses the senses and meanings attributed to physical culture, its conceptions, functions, and role within nineteenth-century Brazil’s educational system. By focusing on diverse kinds of schools as spaces of reference for children and adolescents and the efforts to shape their bodies, this work analyzes the importance of youth for national projects and how educators tried to represent young ideal bodies in school curricula as they made the transition from infancy to adulthood. It also shows how the body is a complex web of ideas and representations, a territory fought over within state institutional spaces. By understanding the “new behaviors” that the modern state wished to promote, the present paper focuses on how physical education shaped health and hygiene conditions through bodily exercises and the pivotal role played by schools within the strategy to transform young students into healthy, strong, disciplined citizens ready to serve the nation. https://cadernosarquivo.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php/am/article/view/78EducationMasculinityNationalismBodiesBrazil |
| spellingShingle | Tiago Fernandes Maranhão Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal Education Masculinity Nationalism Bodies Brazil |
| title | Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil |
| title_full | Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil |
| title_short | Educating bodies for the nation: schools, masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century Brazil |
| title_sort | educating bodies for the nation schools masculinity and transnational knowledge in 19th century brazil |
| topic | Education Masculinity Nationalism Bodies Brazil |
| url | https://cadernosarquivo.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php/am/article/view/78 |
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