ABSTRACT:
This paper analyzes the educational principles of the Catholic Church into specificities of the Brazilian feminine confessional institutions from the XVII and XIX century. We present a research's results about the education established in the interior of the convents, places for a perfect life, and gatherings into monastic orders from the XVIII century, characterized by a cloistral lifestyle and devotional education. In the XIX century, due to the enlargement of feminine schooling speeches and the aspirations for a stronger Catholic Church with the assistance of women's devotion machinates a new confessional educational model, settled by the congregational active life's entrance in Brazil and the setup of educational schools for girls, future moms and wives. We emphasize the importance of this research in order to discuss the differences e continuities between the two proposed models and comprehend how the Catholic Church structured feminine education through orders and religious congregations.
Keywords:
Women's Education; Catholic Church; Nuns.
