Espaços Educacionais para os Cegos: o Asilo-Escola António Feliciano de Castilho (1888-1996)

Maria Romeiras Amado; Carlos Manique da Silva

doi:10.21814/rpe.41273

Authors

Maria Romeiras Amado Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0318-2412
Carlos Manique da Silva Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-0723

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.41273

Keywords:

Blindness education, School architecture, Materiality, Biographies, Lived space.

Abstract

Following several countries in Europe and America in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Portugal also had its first school for blind students in 1888. The boarding school Asilo-Escola António Feliciano de Castilho was a project founded by Associação Promotora para o Ensino dos Cegos that resulted in a very interesting building, with a unique personality. Based on original plans, institutional reports, interviews and photographs, we will emphasize the lived space that defined this school over the planned space and its contribution to the “black box of schooling” and to the history of education of the blind. The collection of sources allowed us a viewpoint both from inside and outside the classroom, informed by first-person accounts and the analysis of the specific materiality. We analyze the original building plan of 1910, its main changes in 1969/1970, and present these spatial lived problematics in light of the theme of blindness and education. It is not possible to understand the historical evolution of the spatial dimension apart from the action that takes place within. Therefore, the experience of architecture is dynamic both in time and space. We conclude our writing by proposing new lines of research to explore the organic relationship between space, pedagogy and subjects.

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Author Biographies

Maria Romeiras Amado, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Maria Romeiras Amado has a PhD in History of Education from the University of Lisbon. She is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and her main interests are disability history, namely blindness history, subject of many of her projects, publications and social activism.

Carlos Manique da Silva, Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Carlos Manique da Silva is a researcher at the Education and Training Research and Development Unit (Institute of Education, University of Lisbon) has a PhD in History of Education from the University of Lisbon and was a visiting professor at the State University of S. Paulo (Brazil). His main interests are school architecture, circulation and dissemination of pedagogical knowledge, the graded school, and the monitorial system of education.

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