Jovens de grupo da pastoral da juventude no bairro Restinga de Porto Alegre - RS: identidades e saberes

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Ferri, Marícia da Silva
• Orientador(a): Santos, Bettina Steren dos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: RELIGIÃO; JUVENTUDE - VIDA RELIGIOSA; JOVENS - EDUCAÇÃO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2816

The Subject matter of this study is YOUTH. It proposes to discuss the learnings constructed by the youth of a Youth Pastoral Group of a poor area of Porto Alegre at Restinga neighborhood. As a goal, it has the approach of the youths in their Religious Group to seek to understand the internal logics of the group, the learnings that they construct, as well as the relationships they establish toward other external segments to the group. The research was developed in a quality approach, using as method the “study of a case” and was developed with ten adolescents, who are the involved participants. As instrument for the collage of data, we used Field Diary - observation, individual and group interviews were important strategies used in the research. From these data, an analysis of contents was made that generated the following categories: identities, socialization, learnings and Religion. Authors like Melucci ( 1997), Spósito (1996), Pais (1993) constitute the main theoretical references of this study. The investigation points out that the religious group is a privileged space to build identities. In a group, the youths involve themselves, build relationships, and get aware that life with someone else can be of education. The Pastoral of Youth provides moments to review life, discussion, exchange experiences with groups from other realities and strengthen values. Key-factors like friendship, solidarity and living with differences are strong highlights. The group is a space of constructing self-esteem, share experiences, friendships, welcoming/ accepting, criticism, but overall, the construction of a positive image of him/herself. The Church is still, one of the traditional institutions, that has the power to nuclear the youths and gives autonomy to them.