School education guidelines in an institution for minors regarded as antisocial (Santa Catarina/Brazil - 1972-1982)

Abstract

This article aims to identify features of the school education carried out at the Educational Center for Minors (Centro Educacional para Menores [CEM]) between 1972 and 1982. This paracriminal institution, created by the Government of the State of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, from the perspective of the Minor’s Welfare Foundation (Fundação do Bem-Estar do Menor [FUNABEM]), had as its main goal to shelter male minors regarded as antisocial who lived in the Greater Florianópolis. The first part of the text describes how, from a bureaucratic-administrative viewpoint, the building of the CEM took place, as well as it provides a profile of the teenagers and young people admitted to that institution. And the other part of the text analyzes the national and state-level guidelines that governed school education.