Adolescentes e jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade social : um estudo crítico das representações de atores sociais

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the role of social actors, youth in the Boys State School of the Future, located in Cuiabá Socio Center (Complex Pomeri), linked to the Department of Justice and Human Rights of the State of Mato Grosso (SEJUDH). Students are under judicial custody and social vulnerability. Meet educational measures of deprivation of liberty, as required by the Child and Adolescent (ECA), Law No. 8069 of June 13, 1990. Teenagers and young people deprived of freedom are generally social actors referred to the deprived socio-educational centers citizenship, access to social rights and basic needs. Knowing these adolescents and young people is the first step to building a relationship of trust, essential for the dialogue to be established with this researcher. It is a based on the theory of representations of social actors (van Leeuwen, 1997) study. The term "social actors" is used by van Leeuwen (1997) to represent persons / individuals from the perspective of discourse. According to the author, the texts (discourse) are produced in a predefined context and culture system and vary according to the purpose of those who speak or write, because the linguistic choices construct social representations. Also is based on the theory of Critical Realism (Bhaskar 1998) and Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2001). For Critical Realism, social reality is understood as articulations of social structures and human action; structures are historical and at the same time independent and connected, being a complex totality of relationships subject to changes both in its structural components (Real, Directed and empirical) and the inter-relationships with the different strata (biological, physical, social, semiotic etc.) influencing each other. Fairclough (2001) considers the use of language a form of social practice rather than a purely individual or situational activity. It also aims to understand the everyday living in these youngsters and adolescents, from the point of historical, political, social and ideological views. The research has the following objectives: (1) Identify and analyze the representations of students about the school, teachers and learning here in written productions and interviews; (2) Analyse the category relevance of school approach with teachers and materialized meaningful learning in written productions and interviews of students; (3) Identify and analyze if there is or not (in) consistencies in written and oral texts of students. The analytical method of discourse aims to propose changes in the social relations of power and oppression in the social structure. The research methodology is qualitative, ethnographic. The results of the analysis clarify, by means of written productions and interviews, the importance of the school in the life of each, the approach with teachers through their practices and meaningful learning. Knowing that social context is critical to know if it is a place of humanization, liberation or oppression, or not being able to provide conditions (ex) social inclusion.