Infância e família em revista: Pais & Filhos (1968-1989)

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the social representations of childhood and family published in the Pais & Filhos magazine, from 1968 to 1989. Launched in 1968 by Bloch Editores S.A., the production deals with aspects related to health, education and behavior children and their families. The thesis is that Pais & Filhos magazine worked as a space of non-institutionalized education, permeated by the debate of pedagogical ideas and by the diversity of educational purposes on your pages. More specifically, the objectives were: 1) To understand the way in which the publication constructed discursive practices aimed at the education of families, even as aspects such as the materiality of the magazine, the constitution of its editorial team and the articulation with the transnational parental press; 2) To identify the constructed representations about childhood and its development conveyed in articles and advertisements; 3) To investigate the dissemination of family, maternity and paternity representations, considering the discourses related to the adaptation of families to the social and cultural transformations experienced in Brasil, from 1968 to 1989. Pais & Filhos magazine was taken as a source and object of historical research and, in this sense, the consultation of its collection occurred in the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The relevance of this publication to research in the History of Education is justified by their role of disseminating discourses of education of children, directed at families, which is in line with the reflections based on historical and cultural perspectives that consider the periodical press as a social construct. Therefore, the following issues are important: How are childhood and family represented in the articles and advertisements of Pais & Filhos magazine? What goals are pursued by the publication? What education is offered and suggested in the editions examined? In response to inquiries, the thesis was structured into four chapters. Chapter 1 - The Brazilian magazine Pais & Filhos and the transnational press for the family on discuss the publication in the context of the periodic press for the family and of the social, political and economic transformations experienced in Brazil during the period under review. The second chapter - Representations that construct childhoods - analyzes discourses based on a childhood dimension associated with the psychosexual development. The third chapter - Early Childhood Education in Pais & Filhos - deals with the texts addressed to parents-readers in an attempt to guide them regarding the cognitive and intellectual development of children. In the fourth chapter - Magazines for what family? - the family representations are examined, associated with the ways of being mother and father valued by the publication. On hope to contribute to the field of scientific production that has representations related to childhood, family and its education as a focus, as well as to the studies of the History of Education that has the periodic press as source and object of research