Os direitos da criança e do adolescente em artigos acadêmicos de educação

Abstract

This research falls within the scope of the research group Children, Youth and Contemporary Culture (GEIJC), in the search line Childhood, Youth: Rights and Policies, linked to the Graduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Campus Rondonopolis. Building on the theoretical contributions of new social studies of childhood, that guide our attention to understanding the ways in which childhood and adult-child relationships are structured in contemporary Western societies, and the debate on the three main legal frameworks on children's rights and adolescents in Brazil (1988 Federal Constitution, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 and the Statute of Children and Adolescents, 1990), our goal was to analyze the treatment given by the field of education to the theme of the Rights of the Child and Adolescents, using as corpus of analysis the academic papers of education related. For this, we adopted as research methodology the reference of John B. Thompson (2011) on the Depth Hermeneutics (HP) and the content analysis technique (ROSEMBERG, 1981; BARDIN, 1988). Our analysis corpus consists of 38 academic articles published between 1986 and 2013 and, according to pre-established criteria were considered the field productions of education . The analysis of the corpus of articles show that there was almost a silent in academic articles on the subject of education for the Rights of Children and Adolescents in the first two decades after the enactment of the three main legal frameworks of childhood. The themes associated with the Rights of the Child and Adolescent addressed more frequently in this production were related to violence, misuse and risk / vulnerability. The school is predominantly presented as a liberating and redeeming at social problems . We learn of results from our research that the Education field is still far from fostering a critical discussion on the Rights of Children and Adolescents. In this production analyzed, we identified a shallow discourse that plays frameworks offered by the media and that leads to reproduction thereof by parents, teachers and other adults in charge of the educational process of children and adolescents.