Educational practices held at the Bourneville School Pavilion: a study through the Sociology of Absences in relation to autism

Abstract

The present study aims to understand what the educational and pedagogical practices in relation to autism were in the period of hygienism in Brazil, a time when nosology did not employ this term. As the term autism was not used, the study elects by reference peculiarities of some of the children and young people with autism, such as restlessness, incommunicability, and intellectual disability. This work adopts as a locus of study, the Bourneville School Pavilion for abnormal children, located in the National Asylum of The Alienated of Rio de Janeiro. The central objective is to analyze historically how educational and pedagogical practices of school exclusion have been constituted in relation to children and young people at the beginning of the century, in Brazil. The organization and analysis of the information was made based in Boaventura de Sousa Santos and in the historical-cultural approach. A literature review was made, and the translation work served as research methods. For category analysis, it was examined the practices of what was done as treatment, educational or pedagogical organization, as well as the orientation of practices to teachers in Bourneville School Pavilion. In this study it was possible to ascertain as treatment and education, the translation of the procedures used in Europe, as a form of metonymic reason and there was little reference to superior psychic processes.