In the lap of mother Faustina: a slave nurse and the education of children by the families in the 19th century

Abstract This paper aims at identifying the educational practices engendered by slave nurses within the families and how such practices may have become educational practices of children under their care. The study covered the decade of 1870 in the city of Paranaguá, Province of Paraná. Documentary sources consisted of reports written by members of the Correia family, which preserved in the family memories evidences of the education given by the nurse Faustina to little Leocádio Cysneiros Correia, who was born in 1876. The first part of the paper presents interpretations of some traces of the life of the slave Faustina within the Correia family; the second part presents analyses of the educational practices that she and other slave nurses seemingly used in the education of children within the families in the 19th century.

摘要 本文旨在厘清奴隶保姆在家庭中催生的教育实践，以及此类实践如何演变为其所照料儿童的教育模式。本研究聚焦巴拉那州（Paraná）巴拉那瓜市（Paranaguá）1870年代的历史时段。本研究的文献资料源自科雷亚（Correia）家族成员所撰写的报告，这些材料留存于家族记忆之中，包含保姆福斯蒂娜（Faustina）对生于1876年的小莱奥卡迪奥·西斯内罗斯·科雷亚（Leocádio Cysneiros Correia）开展教育的相关佐证。本文第一部分对奴隶保姆福斯蒂娜在科雷亚家族的生活痕迹进行解读；第二部分则分析了她与其他19世纪家庭中的奴隶保姆，在照料家庭儿童时所采用的教育实践。