"Um viveiro de competências e abnegações": a formação do marinheiro na Escola de Aprendizes Norte-Rio-Grandense (1933-1941)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the disciplinary codes, forms of punishment and misdemeanors carried out by apprentices (students) and officers (sailors) responsible for applied teaching within the Escola de Aprendizes Marinheiros do Rio Grande do Norte, located in the city of Natal, in the time frame that goes from 1933 to 1941. We understand by disciplinary processes, any and all resources used with the intention of instilling in the minds and bodies of the apprentices, rules and norms established by the Navy, which establish the desired professional profile to compose the fleet national. For a better understanding of the subject, we dialogue with the concepts of discipline postulated by Michel Foucault (2020), of school culture proposed by Dominique Julia (2010), as well as the works on the functioning and daily life in schools for training sailors written by Rozenilda Castro (2013; 2017), Vera Regina Beltrão Marques and Silvia Pandini (2004), among others. The historical sources discussed are the Reports of the Minister of the Navy, the Reports of the President of the Province and State of Rio Grande do Norte, periodicals in circulation at the time, such as the newspapers A República and A Ordem, the Laws and Decrees issued by the government. , and school documentation arranged in handwritten books: o Bid Books, Order of the Day Book, Punishment Book for Apprentices, Punishment Book for Sergeants, Book for the Discipline Board, Sailors Examination Book, and the Prize Book Marcílio Dias. We conclude that the Escola de Aprendizes Marinheiros do Rio Grande do Norte, during its time of operation, invested heavily in the process of disciplining bodies, training the minors who settled there, with the formative purpose of normalizing the so-called children's bodies, preparing them for professional/military work in the Brazilian Navy.