'O nosso progresso caminha pelos pés das nossas crianças sadias e instruídas!': representações sobre infância, educação e sociedade em Guarapuava (1930-1960).

This paper aims at analyzing the representations on childhood and education in Guarapuava-PR in the period 1930 to 1960. Based on newspapers published in the city during the period, we divided the text in two parts: 1) firstly, we studied the issues that were raised around the child and which touched the daily lives of families, 2) then, we investigated the representations directly related to school education that the child care provided to the different ways in which writers / readers of newspapers analyzed their own educational context. In conclusion, we could see the relevance of childhood in the way social transformations of the city were understood by men and women who thought the limits and possibilities of education then existing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]