THE WANDERERS OF THE CITY AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION IN THE FIRST REPUBLIC

The starting point of the study has as its time frame the moments marked by the advent of the republican period in Brazil, in which political and social changes established fertile ground for the propagation of the defense that, to materialize a promising society, child protection was essential. In order to delimit the space-time scope of the research, it is important to highlight that the intention is to examine and outline the relationships inherent to civilizing education and child hygiene, as categories of analysis, highlighting the history of childhood and children in Brazil. As a result, actions and policies aimed at children in republican Brazil gain centrality in this study. Descriptive qualitative research was used as a methodology, through the investigation of documentary and bibliographic data. To elucidate these questions, a theoretical reference was sought using bibliographic material related to this theme.