Diálogo mediado como práxis de cuidado: uma tecnologia social de redução de danos no contexto escolar

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to construct, theorize, and systematize a social technology, herein called Mediated Dialogue, based on the theoretical accumulation of popular education, critical pedagogies, and the strategy of harm reduction. The Mediated Dialog is an innovative technology that fosters protagonism, curiosity, and the potential of young people to be more.Through this technology, it is opted to invest in criticism and problematization, thus refusing depositary and content-based pedagogies. In addition, this technology is theoretically and methodologically close to the harm reduction approach, as it aims at the collective construction of care and knowledge processes. In this way, this research had as its general objective to elaborate and systematize the social technology Mediated Dialogue, aimed at facilitating debates, spaces for reflection and problematization about drug use, harm reduction and health promotion with young people, especially in the school context. This primary objective is divided into specific objectives, namely: 1) To investigate the theoretical and conceptual bases of popular education and harm reduction, in order to elaborate a pedagogical social technology aimed at acting in this field; 2) ) Systematize theoretically and methodologically the technical product Mediator Dialog; 3) Compose pilot workshops that can be used as mediation tools in the use of the Mediated Dialogue, approaching the theme of harm reduction. To this end, we make use of the theoretical framework of critical pedagogies, which aims at the formulation of a teaching and learning modality that is not guided by the reproduction of the dominant ideology, but that presents itself as transforming, even though it recognizes the structural limits of its performance. Finally, we hypothesize that such pedagogical technology, based on a critical and dialectical epistemic field, will result in the construction of a health promotion tool that is easy to replicate and low cost, and that can be widely used in the city's school systems, as well as in other places in the country, obviously adapting itself to each of the contexts used.