O esporte como meio de inclusão social: avaliação da efetividade do Programa Segundo Tempo

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Program Second Time in the city of Fortaleza-CE in light of the Sports Field Theory of Pierre Bourdieu and using the evaluation model Context-Input-Process-Product (CIPP). Faced with a society permeated by social conflicts, public policies play an important role in serving the needy population, and it can act as a social change promotional tool (HOFLING, 2001). The Program Second Time, created in order to democratize access to sports activities to enhance the quality of life of children and low-income youth, since its inception has had great representation across the country, the target of several evaluations. Taking shape as a research ex post facto, predominantly descriptive character, used as data collection instruments a questionnaire to the beneficiaries and a semi-structured interview for teachers and representatives of school management. Objective responses obtained through the questionnaires were categorized with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) (version 20.0), while the answers to the questionnaires open questions and the information obtained by the interviews were treated according to the technique of Content Analysis defined by Bardin (2004). Data were grouped into four thematic dimensions: context, inputs, process, product; and concluded that the Second Half Program in the city of Fortaleza, promoted improvements in the quality of life of its participants, and provided elements for changing these realities in the short and long term, thus constituting an effective public policy.