"Antes o filho apanhar do pai do que da polícia": representações e práticas educativas das mães sobre os filhos atendidos pelo Conselho Tutelar de Vitória

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Espíndula, Daniel Henrique Pereira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em Psicologia; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Social representations; Educational practices; Tutoring Counsel; Práticas educativas; Conselho Tutelar; Educação de crianças; Mães e filho; Representações sociais; Psicologia; 159.9
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/2980

The present work aimed to investigate the representations of mothers helped by the Tutoring Counsel about “problem children”; the educational practices developed in facing the problem and the evaluation of the support offered by the Counsel. Eleven mothers of adolescents participated in the study, selected according to the interest in the research, with children who presented some kind of problem – involvement with drugs, being at the street situation and/or practicing minor transgressions. We utilized an interview script with an evocation question about problem adolescents, open questions about educational practices developed by the mother in the child education, and the relation of those mothers with the Tutoring Counsel. The material was analyzed using Bardin´s thematic analysis. The results show that the representation of the mothers with respect to adolescents who give trouble presents elements as: uncontrollable, follower, with personality problems (weak mind) and rebel. The causes seem to be centered in the personal and internal characteristics; friendships and the environment where they live; lack of control; need of acquirement of socially valued goods; and religious questions. The educational practices, though, are based on the practice of dialogue and advice. However, the mothers evaluate that the only practice capable of solving the problem of their children in internship. Nevertheless, what happens is that in most cases the application of this measure does not fall under the Tutoring Counsel capabilities, creating a gap between what is sought by the mothers and the measures applied by the Counsel in order to solve the problem.