Neves Da Silva

This volume is the result of research for a Master’s Degree in Family in Contemporary Society completed at the Catholic University of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 2007. Although controversial, boarding school education has left its mark on contemporary educational systems and has still been maintained by private, confessional institutions and public initiatives for semi-boarding schools or comprehensive education. Taking the symbolic universe of the research subjects as a reference point, the stages investigated in this work were, firstly, the expectations of parents when taking their children to a regular basic education in a boarding and confessional institution. Next, the experience of the boarders and how they interpret, accept or reject the dynamics of the boarding school and its spaces and, finally, the experience of boarding school life by the graduates. Based on the findings of the research, interested readers are taken to a space and meanings that take us back to the origins of education today and help us to better understand how human beings are constituted in educational institutions in general. A fundamental work for teachers and those interested in education.