A promoção da cultura de paz nas escolas: a ótica das juventudes

Abstract

The inquiry consisted of the accompaniment of educative processes, which had as objective the development of the peace culture. Those processes are developed by two schools (public and private universe) of basic education in the city of Fortaleza. The research focused on the speech of the young students about the construction of the peace in the school environment. Knowing what they think, feel and how they evaluate the experiences lived and related them to the integrant activities of projects aiming to promote the peace culture, was the central objective of the inquiry. Considering the possible research universe related to the qualitative approach, the option was for the ethnographic referential. The research techniques used were the participant observation, and the application of four interviews with part-structured script. I also carried through a documentary research. I analyzed documents found in the school for the reinforcement of contextualizing work of the studied phenomenon. Finally, I organized a workshop on culture of peace in each searched school, in order to explore in quality and depth the experiences shared through the students speech. The students of the first school attended the eighth grade. In the public school I worked night shift with adult students attending to the equivalent to the eighth grade. The data had been organized and interpreted in accordance with the referential of the speech analysis. The results indicate that part of the students who participated on the researched acknowledges the urgency and the relevance of the promotion of the peace culture. The aspects of living together, dialogue, care and creativity had been emphasized in their speech regarding the role of the school in the search to promote concrete conditions so that the human being can consist itself fully; with all the possible contradictions that the exercise of the human existence contemplates.