Theoretical and methodological references in History of Eduation researches: towards a history of relations among sensibilities, free time and formation

Abstract

This writing presents some perspectives of a new project named Education of the senses in history: the free time as formation possibility (between the last years of 19th Century and the first years of 21st Century). Its basic purpose is to share our journey to creating conditions for the construction of a history of education of the senses and sensibilities in Minas Gerais in the period between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the century XXI. Developed from different master's, doctoral and post doctoral studies, and based on the empirical work of the grade students Luísa Cecília Belotti Oscar, Caroline Maria Ferreira and Maria Daniela Drummond Donoso, the text focuses on a subproject that has as main objective the mapping, identification and cataloging of sources related with the central theme. It also intends the development of monographs for understanding the relationship between free time, formation and development of sensitivities in the indicated period. Among several deployed files, we have given prominence to Arquivo Público Mineiro, Hemeroteca and Setor de Obras Raras da Biblioteca Pública Luiz de Bessa and Biblioteca da Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais, all of them in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Based on these archives, the presence of periodical press as an empirical possibility has great relevance.