Designations versus conceptions of portuguese childhood in dictionaries and speeches (19th century and part 20th)

Abstract

This is a historical-descriptive study, of hermeneutic content, constructed on the basis of literature and writings of the time on the social conception of the child and his childhood, using designations, nomenclatures or adjectives in dictionaries and scientific discourses (medical-hygienists, legal-legal, pedagogical) and political-ideological, in the period of the century. 19th century to the 1930. In particular, we will approach the 'Other' childhood, which we classify as a childhood differentiated from the so-called normal because it is on the margins of normalization and schooling imposed by society. We are guided by a triad of objectives, which correspond to the points of approach: to understand the etymological referential designation of the terms child - childhood (dictionaries) articulated with the scientific discursive language of the time; explain the various designs and related terms that includes the 'Other Childhood' used by us; to know the meaning of the categories of minors established in the Child Protection Act of 1911 in line with the protective measures of protection.