Sociolazer : possibilidade à promoção da saúde na socioeducação

Abstract

Health and Leisure are social rights. It is guaranteed to all citizens, including adolescents, serving a socio-educational detention order. They should be provided with a set of educational and articulated actions for comprehensive care and development, with an emphasis on Socio education to the detriment of sanctioning aspects. The aim of this research is to elucidate the question of whether Leisure activities promote the health of adolescents in this context. This research analyzes the Leisure activities offered in socio-educational detention in Mato Grosso in confluence with the perspectives of Health Promotion. The fonts of this research are: data from official documentary sources dealing with these issues; and semi-structured interviews with adolescents who had been released from socio-educational detention in Mato Grosso and professionals who work in the Cuiabá Socio-educational system. The methodological approach processing the data followed the assumptions of Thematic Analysis. Three discussion topics emerged: (i) Health and Leisure policies for adolescents in conflict with the law: exploring interfaces, social rights and intersectorality; (ii) Between walls, communities and experiences: challenges and potential of Leisure in Promoting the Health of adolescents in conflict with the law; and (iii) Sociolazer: time, space and experience in Socio-education. The theoretical and methodological foundations from the perspectives of Popular Health Education and the Sociology of Knowledge contributed to the process of analyzing and discussing the data. The results show that the legal provisions consulted recognize Leisure as an important strategy for Health Promotion, whether in terms of universal rights and/or in the context of Socio educational detention. However, the main challenges to the implementation of these policies include the weaknesses of intersectorality and institutional incompleteness in providing comprehensive care to adolescents in conflict with the law. Also, from the perspective of the participants interviewed, I can see that Leisure is permeated by potentialities that point to its educational aspect in the pedagogical dimension of Socio-education, while in some cases its functionalities are also reinforced and reproduced by the institution and the adolescents. I conclude that Leisure presents itself as a possibility for Promoting the Health of adolescents in conflict with the law, if it is conceived as a time for learning, a space for rights and experiences in Socio-education. However, Leisure can also be alienating when it is used only to occupy free time and/or as a bargaining chip in the sanctioning dimension of the socio-educational detention measure, ignoring its possibilities for learning and development in Socio-education.