Semeando paz nas escolas do Bom Jardim: estudo de caso no Curso Jovens Agentes da Paz – JAP

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Elizangela Lima do
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Paz; Juventudes; Escola
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2597

The present study was carried through with the participant youngsters of the Curso Jovens Agentes da Paz (JAP), promoted by the non-governmental organization Centro de Defesa da Vida Herbert de Sousa (CDVHS), in the neighborhood of Grande Bom Jardim in Fortaleza, Brazil. This course had as objective to enable youngsters so that they become multipliers of the peace and the promotion of the human rights in the pertaining of their school space or the community, developing projects related to the thematic studied in the course. Besides that, our proposal aimed to reflect on this formative experience, from the views of youngsters, searching to collect their knowledge and impressions about the experience and the work with peace. For the accomplishment of the research, we choose as theoretical support Matos (2001, 2003, 2006, 2011), Freire (2005; 2006; 2008), Jarés (2002; 2007) and Dayrell (2006, 2007). We opt to do a case study, having phenomenology as its guiding principle. For the collection of data we use the participant comment during the course as well as halfguided interviews, and also focal groups with the youngsters and the course facilitators. We still carry through interviews with teachers and managers in the schools where the youngsters of the JAP would have to implant the projects. The youngsters reported the importance of the course in their lives and the awakening for notions of ethics and tolerance in every-day life. Concerned to peace they understand that it is related to the “peace of spirit” or state of harmony between all human beings. We saw that good part of the youngsters executed actions related to the thematic in their field of work and performance. The school is still presented as a challenging environment, especially for the necessity of establishing and widening the relation of dialogue between management and youngsters. We highlight that the impact of the course in the formation of the youngsters was meaningful, as it was denoted by their speeches and experiences, showing a considerable and significant change of values.