A REFLECTION ON THE MATERIALIZATION OF PRAISE TO BAOBÁ IN/THE CITY OF MOSSORÓ/RN
Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to understand the orientations of physicians for the promotion of hygienic education in school groups in Pernambuco from 1911 to 1930. To this end, we analyzed instructional documents, reports of school groups, educational legislation and theses on medicine. hygiene of the period studied. We are based theoretically and methodologically on Cultural history, and on studies related to the history of education in Brazil. We realize that Pernambuco school groups were created late compared to groups from other Brazilian states. To ensure the proper functioning of these groups, a series of hygienic guidelines should be followed to ensure the physical, intellectual and moral development of students. To sanitize the school and, consequently, society needed education and medicine to work together to save the nation and the Brazilian homeland that was wanted healthy and regenerated.