Mobilização, educação e memória: o Serviço de Promoção Humana (SPH), em Camocim-CE, 1962-1979

This dissertation analyzes the mobilization of Human Promotion Service (SPH) in Camocim, from 1962 to 1979, with the workers who constituted its membership, around the activities that the institution was creating from thematic brought from experiences of these workers, such as education, health, housing, food and work. Highlights the presence of the Church in the development of these activities, from the perspective of social intervention, validation customs and values held by it. This presence is observed through the cession of physical spaces, that made possible the realization of the work; the influence of a mission of Church, experienced by president directors of the SPH and institutions with whom he formed agreements such as the Brazilian Caritas and Action of Episcopate German against hunger and disease in the World ( MISEREOR ) Situated in the social history and in dialogue with the English historiography, especially with the works of Edward Palmer Thompson and Raymond Williams, seeks to question what was that experience of SPH and these workers in the city and beyond it. It searchs also the meanings that workers are attributing to these experiences, memories built by institutional documents and dialogue with these subjects. Emphasizes the work of education as a social practice and articulating force that forged ways to educate, to organize, to work, to have fun, which were constituting individuals in the creation of motion of the city itself and the field. Thompson allowed us to understand the experience of these workers not as a fixed category, abstract but as the experienced in life, events, actions, and at the same time, the senses attributed to them. In dealing with the sources of research, Williams brings important contributions to the understanding of them as constitutive of social languages. The analysis of its deployment was made from the materials of the Fund: Serviço de Promoção Humana (SPH), Núcleo de Estudos e Documentação Histórica (NEDHIS), situated in the Centro de Ciências Humanas (CCH), ...