Hygiene in Primary Schools: Perspectives on The Writings of Antonio Ferreira de Almeida Júnior (1922-1939)

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how hygiene and education were drawn together in bibliographical production and in the professional work of Antonio Ferreira de Almeida Júnior (1892-1971), a teacher, physician, and education manager who wrote teaching manuals oriented towards hygiene, childca...

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Published in:Encounters in Theory and History of Education 2022-01, Vol.23, p.223-240
Main Author: Pall Oriani, Angélica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biology
Child care
Children & youth
Childrens health
Elementary Education
Elementary schools
Habits
Hair
Health education
Health promotion
Healthy habits
Hygiene
Inspection
Manuals
Teachers
Teaching
Teething
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to analyze how hygiene and education were drawn together in bibliographical production and in the professional work of Antonio Ferreira de Almeida Júnior (1892-1971), a teacher, physician, and education manager who wrote teaching manuals oriented towards hygiene, childcare, and educational biology. In them, Almeida Júnior nuanced representations about the nature of the child in relation to the primary school’s role in improving society’s health, and assigns key importance to teachers, who were taught medical practices and instructed to measure children’s height and weight, and to check teething, hair, vision, and hearing. Healthy habits were verified in order to consolidate them among children, identifying them as either healthy or ill and classifying children as "normal" and "abnormal."
ISSN:1494-4936
2560-8371
DOI:10.24908/encounters.v23i0.15699