Nursing schools for adults workers – Bahia – 1871-1889

Abstract

This article presents some experiences in the night schools for adult workers in the province of Bahia, from 1870 to 1888, as part of the schooling undertaken between the year of the creation of the Public Instruction Council by law 172 of May 25, 1842 and the year 1888, of the Abolition of Slavery, which legally established new forms of work in society. The theoretical methodological approach is micro-historical and approaches several classes and houses of education of the province of Bahia whose records are still accessible. The criterion was to articulate a varied corpus of sources such as the offices of several subjects of Bahian public education - parents, teachers, inspectors - and official sources of the General Directorate of Public Instruction such as teaching regulations, reports of presidents of the province, , reports of directors of Public Instruction, maps and statistical tables of teachers to a specific context / process lived by the Brazilian / Bahian society - the debacle of slavery in line with the growing concern with the formation of a new worker from the categorized as element national.