ABSTRACT
This article aims at understanding how the childhood time and some of the schooling practices oriented to the individual who experiences it, the child, were developed in the school legislation of the province of Paraná between 1857 and 1883, based on the education regulations and compulsory education laws in force throughout that period. The first part lists some of the theoretical and methodological instruments adopted to deal with the object of this research. The second part presents the problematization of the school legislation as a privileged source for the production of historical knowledge about the education of children in relation to the context of the province of Paraná. In the third part we investigate some practices of children education using the concepts of gender and school age as analytical tools to understand their impact on the production of the school space, knowledges and childhood time of schooling in the province of Paraná.
KEYWORDS
history of education; schooling; childhood; Paraná; 19th century