| dc.description.abstract | This study deals with a public policy instituted in some squares, from the decade of 1920, denominated Gardens of Recreation. The objective of this study was to identify the conditions for the implementation of the Recreation Gardens, as well as the creation of the Public Recreation Service in the city of Porto Alegre and its educational interfaces in the process of constitution of a subject ruled by na Education in Republic. In this sense, the focus of analysis was to build a historical trajectory of the Recreation Gardens aligning with the life of Professor Frederico Guilherme Gaelzer. The qualitative research was based on documentary analysis based on written documents (diary, laws, decrees, official documents and other printed documents and manuscripts), oral (testimonials) and iconographic (images, maps and plant), which were conceived as "monuments", in the sense that Le Goff treats, analyzing as a product of society that made it according to the relations of forces. In the light of theorists like Roger Chartier and Michel de Certeau, the analysis is structured in two dimensions. First, based on the interface of the Configurational Theory, operationalized from the work of Norbert Elias, the study is conducted in order to analyze the networks of interdependence of Frederico Gaelzer and its relation with the creation of the Recreation Gardens and the Public Recreation Service. Second, it analyzes the conditions for the establishment and operation of the Playgrounds in their educational function and its developments with urbanity. Thus, it was possible to understand, through the analysis of the empirical data, that the Gardens of Recreation, established in the squares and public parks of the city, were constituted beyond spaces of sociability and leisure of the Porto Alegre inhabitants. There was a pedagogical intention fostered by the urban modifications, by the hygienist and civilizing discourse triggered by modernity. | en |
