A EDUCAÇÃO DA RAPARIGA INDÍGENA NAS MISSÕES CATÓLICAS DURANTE O PERÍODO COLONIAL EM MOÇAMBIQUE

Abstract

This article aims to understand the education of indigenous girls in Catholic missions during the colonial period. This period, which lasted about 500 years, consequently left deep marks on the population, with those left in the education system being more relevant. Analyzing the education of girls during the colonial period in Mozambique requires a historical exercise, as the education system in the country has gone through several stages, moments and contexts. Essentially, the education of the girl was relegated to the Catholic Church, which played a decisive role in the process of teaching the indigenous in Mozambique. Mission education aimed at preparing and nationalizing the Mozambican to become a black-skinned Portuguese and to serve the colonial government in its efforts. Based on this scenario, in the first part of the article I analyzed the first writings made around girls' education and how schools and educational programs were designed for them. In the second part, I focus on education in Catholic missions. This article was based on a bibliographic and documentary analysis, in which we sought to describe the topics from the materials and documents existing in the Archives, focusing mainly on the documentation that gave more impetus and clarity to the research.