Projeto Restaurar: uma forma de inclusão social da criança e do adolescente através da valorização da educação

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the social impacts of the actions performed by the Projeto Restaurar Criança Alegre, one of the projects of the Fundação Evangélica Restaurar, supported by the Instituto Educacional da Bahia IEB, and the transformations presented by the children and adolescents that participated of the Project. This is a study case, qualitative research, which seeks to understand how education can influence on the formation of the critical, supportive and autonomous character as well as on the changing of behaviors and attitudes. It presents the educational process and the educative action as liberating practices, on the understanding of the being and in the search of pedagogical alternatives, focused on processes that go beyond the finished and bureaucratic forms of predetermined teaching, but awake the desire and the pleasure of learning to be happier and have a better life. For decades the education has been calling the attention of political and social debates in society. Given the difficulties experienced by children and adolescents of the Projeto Restaurar Criança Alegre, as the precariousness of teaching, contact with the world of crime, drug abuse, underdeveloped homes, globalized world that values the possessions and not the human being, lack of employment, values and attitudes that are changing and confront with the differences of gender, race, ethnicity, social inequality, the generation gap, which directly reflect on the family, school and social ambit. The institution, in the context of its transformative practice, conceives that we are all educators and learners, while we teach and are taught, that the fundamental essence of the educators is constituted through their actions and their interactions with the world and with others. In this institution, the educator develops activities that foster human development, participation and social transformation and that are designed for a problem-based education, through which the educators can develop themselves in a creative, critical and sensitive way, actively participating in the process of construction of knowledge. The results of the research show that the satisfactory intellectual development, coupled with the belief in the capacity of the subject and a work with affectionateness and commitment, point to the construction of an autonomous, creative, moral and ethical subject and these are values that could be taught and learned.