Ações educativas em situação de abrigagem e desenvolvimento moral : a perspectiva dos cuidadores em núcleo de abrigos residenciais

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

The present work investigates and reflects on what caregivers think regarding the moral development of children and teenagers who live in residential shelters. The genetic epistemology was used as theoretical referential, particularly Jean Piaget¿s study of moral development. The research aims to understand how is the characterization of the caregivers standpoint about their contribution in the daily action can contribute to their moral development. The research was developed in the Núcleo de Abrigos Residenciais (Center of Residential Shelters) connected to Fundação de Proteção Especial (Foundation of Special Protection), and the subjects were 12 caregivers who work with sheltered children and teenagers. The methodology adopted was qualitative and involved single case study (YIN, 2010). Observations were made so that an interview script could be written, as well as three stories including questions about educational actions in the residential shelters, which were used in the interview. The replies were analyzed based on three categories: a) Forms of Relationships, b) Creation of Norms and Rules, c) Appreciation of Feelings. The results suggest that caregivers perceive themselves as contributors to the sheltered children and teenagers¿ process of socialization. The attempts to provide and ensure to every child and teenager the right and access to care and education (in the practical sense of the concept) were connected to the everyday chores of the residential shelters and to possible demands of their future life. The caregivers did not explicitly differentiate the psychological dimension which corresponds to the children and teenagers¿ moral and cognitive development. The establishment of norms in the residential shelters, according to the subjects interviewed, happen predominantly due to coercive relationships based on unilateral respect and heteronomy, although there are, in some situations, indications of cooperative relationships based on mutual respect. The feeling of respect is understood by the caregivers interviewed as an interindividual feeling which results from bonds established from social contact and affinities, with predominance of unilateral respect. Mutual respect in terms of reciprocity is rarely highlighted.

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shelter desenvolvimento moral moral development respeito respect interindividual relationsh

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