Quando jovens se tornam agentes de direitos humanos: uma experiência de formação política - IBEAC - Cidade Tiradentes - 1999/2001

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation is to deepen as a study-case, one of the experiences of political education developed by IBEAC-Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Apoio Comunitário (Brazilian Institute of Community Studies and Support), a non-governmental organization based in São Paulo city, in a partnership with the State Secretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice. The research points out the program of education of Young Agents of the Human Rights, realized in the peripheral district of Tiradentes City, located in the east region of the São Paulo capital. In this process, Human Rights are treated not as a specialist's subject but as parts of the quotidian of these young, aiming to increase their participation, the emerging process of different forms of resistance and the search of different ways for the autonomy, both individual and collective. The main methodological procedures used were questionnaires and interviews, besides documental and bibliographic research and also participatory observation. The questionnaires and interviews, dimensioned and qualified altitudes changes with regards to the human rights defense in the quotidian, in speeches and values, progresses in the form of participation and as a communitarian, social and political protagonist, multiplying contents and methodologies, causing the formation of new individuals, actions that contains proposals for the human rights area. From different meanings of this experience is possible to evidence the political education as a strategy that contributes building individual and collective characters, in the perspective of strengthened of the democracy and the active citizenship