A educação social e a autonomia de adolescentes em medida protetiva: uma concepção freireana no acolhimento institucional

Abstract

he history of institutionalized childhood and adolescence in Brazil transits as an object of study in different contexts because there is much to be demystified, dismembered and revisited. From the period of the Wheel of the Exposed to the present, going through the doctrine of the irregular situation until the doctrine of integral protection, in force in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of the Child and Adolescent - ECA of 1990, changes occurred in the way of conducting the institutions and in the choice of professionals to work with this segment of the population, finally giving priority to people from the social area, notably those involved in social education and popular education, such as the city of Caxias do Sul/RS. In spite of this, the almost thirty years that have passed since ECA have not completely removed the remnants of authoritarian and segregating periods. In terms of historical context, a chapter was devoted to investigating the reception services in the municipality of Caxias do Sul/RS, going through COMAI and FAS, through information contained in the Municipal Public Archive and in newspaper articles that circulated in the city. city and region at the time, crossing boarding schools and shelters and, subsequently, visualizing new perspectives of reception. From this historical context, it was sought, in the face of exploratory research, through the collection of bibliographic data combined with the ethnographic paths experienced in a welcoming service in the city of Caxias do Sul / RS, to identify evidence of social education in the Freirean perspective of autonomy of adolescents living in the institution, analyzing daily life both from the perspective of adolescents and from social education professionals. It can be seen that, despite the (in) definitions about the role of a professional in social education, the possibility of using social pedagogy as a strategy and as an epistemology of hope in the institutional territory is to fight for the guarantees that adolescents in protective measures receive care worthy, of people with a critical eye, at the same time careful, affective and welcoming and who help in the construction of their autonomy, overcoming institutional barriers.