This work proposes to arrive at an understanding of the education project of Paula Frassinetti (Saint Paula, foundress of the Saint Dorothy Congregation) which was elaborated from her pedagogical intuitions in the historical-cultural context of ultramontane Catholicism. In the methodology the historical and documental research of the sources (Letters and Constitutions) left by Paula Frassinetti were used. The first school of the Congregation was founded in Quinto (1834), in Italy, and later it expanded to Portugal and Brazil. Its theoretical reference is centered on the analysis of the conceptions of the Church in the 19th century focussing on women's education. With this in view, the Dorotheans undertook the mission of educating youths following Catholic morality and choosing the boarding school system. Paula Frassinetti from her pedagogical intuitions had developed the guidelines of her Congregation. The result of the work at hand consists of presenting how her intuitions had constituted the education project of the Dorothean Schools, which permeated the social and cultural practices of the time and place in which they were applied.
Paula Frassinetti; Education project; Pedagogical intuitions; Dorothean Schools
