Juventudes, cultura de paz e escola: transformando possibilidades em realidade

Abstract

This research was conducted between June 2010 and June 2011, in the School Maria Melo, Teresina-Piauí, in order to contribute to building a Culture of Peace in the school environment. The study, in the form research-intervention, involved 71 students from 6th to 9th of elementary school, the management team, staff and teachers. In accord to this type of research, was built the field of analysis, formed by all the theoretical contributions that deal with: the process of institutionalization, research-intervention, youth and Culture of Peace. As a field of intervention, chose a public school, where there was the demand and voluntary compliance of the community school. The devices of analysis or action strategies were varied: focus groups, meetings, thematic workshops and questionnaires. The results show that young people are seen by most teachers as being uninterested in studies, undisciplined, and in some cases violent. The blame for the existence of these problems is attributed to the family, they say, does not educate or impose limits. In contrast, young people are perceived positively, recognize the difficulties and obstacles they face in everyday life, show value for studies and see themselves as people who can contribute to improving the environment where they live. While living the ambiguity and vagueness in relation to what they are, considered youth a moment "wonderful", "passenger" where the errors are "allowed". Relative to peace, I realized, by part of members of the school community, the predominance of negative conception, in which peace is associated with tranquility and harmony, the absence of conflicts and as individual attribute. As a result, it is difficult to think of peace as intersubjective reality and as a process that takes place collectively. I checked also the pedagogical School proposes and could note its focus is on the transmission of content, with no time and space for approach of essential and constitute aspects of human life. From this we can infer that the understanding of peace, violence, youth, school and culture of peace, explained by the research shows that these institutions have typifications of actions with a controller character of behaviors, attitudes and discourse, which may explain the resistance of some members of the school community to change their daily practices, even after a process of reflection. Importantly, however, that the research-intervention represented a breakthrough in this direction, particularly as regards the revision of the concept of peace, that after the debates and concerns, was closest to the positive sense, which can signal the first step in building a Culture of Peace in this school.