Poor Children as an Outsider Group and their Schooling

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss the social historical view of poor children as an outsider group and their schooling, based on an empirical paradigm developed by Norbert Elias to elaborate on the power relation problem. The questions presented here were analyzed based on a bibliographical study of the view of poverty as moral disqualification and the stigmatization of poor children. Next, based on a documental survey and historical inquiry, it was aimed to elucidate the role of public schooling in the stigmatization of poor children as an inferior group, especially in the province/state of Minas Gerais in the 19th and early 20th centuries.