The thesis entitled Childhood, Children and Educational Experiences in the Educandário Eunice Weaver (1942-1980), is part of the History of Education and History of Childhood - Pará and has as its object the history of childhood and the educational experiences of children who live institutionally isolated due to the public policy of compulsory isolation implanted in Brazil in the first half of the XX century, for the control and prevention of leprosy. The main objective of the study was to explain the childhood and educational experiences of children who lived institutionalized in a space created to host, maintain, educate and instruct children who did not have leprosy, but because they were children of sick parents, they should be removed from the family to avoid the contagion of the disease by the parents. The preventers/educandários were created in almost all the Brazilian states in a moment of remarkable growth of the public interest in childhood, of social control and authoritarian intervention of the public power over the population. The procedures adopted for the acquisition of information and for the achievement of the proposed objectives were the interviews in oral and thematic oral history and documentary research, because, in this type of procedure, the researched topic is valued, and oral data communicate with other sources, which may be the documents and the analysis references. The main sources of the corpus of the thesis were the oral narratives of 13 graduates of the institution, the regulation of the preventers for children of lazarus installed in Brazil, the book of the Solidarity Campaign for the construction of preventory for healthy Lazarus’s children in Pará, reports of the I and II National Conferences of Social Assistance to the Lazarus, in 1939 and 1945, respectively, The National Public Health Department Regulations of 1923, photographic records, government reports, offices, as well as articles, books and magazines with subjects on leprosy and about the institution. The reflections undertaken are anchored in the foundations of cultural history. Authors like Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin and Erving Goffman gave us input for the analyzes undertaken. The research results reveal the history of children who were removed from their relationship with their families and from social life, thus building a way of experiencing childhood based on isolation, control of children's bodies through discipline and physical and psychological violence.
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