O Projeto “Escola que Protege” em Dourados/MS: prevenção da violência sexual infantojuvenil no âmbito educacional

Abstract

This work aims to socialize research results which investigated and analyzed the use of a project named “School that protects: mobilizing professionals in defense of children’s and teenagers’ rights”, carried out by Comitê Municipal de Enfrentamento da Violência e de Defesa dos Direitos Sexuais de Crianças e Adolescentes de Dourados/MS (COMCEX). This research examined the History of Education, Memory and Society. It originated from the concern by the high number of cases from children and teenagers sexual abuses, recorded by services in Centro de Referência de Assistência Social (CREAS), subordinated to the Secretaria Municipal de Assistência Social (SEMAS). The CREAS’s staff proposes to the COMCEX strategies to face the problem of sexual violence, executed by “school that protect” project. This is a present and a qualitative research with descriptive data, by means of initials and no participant observation, carried out in local and state schools in Dourados, MS, aiming to known the ‘trainers’, professionals by the COMCEX to prepare other professionals for the schools. After initial description and collection of papers from the sampling, some questionnaires and interviews were prepared and different people and their perceptions about violence and child sexual abuse were observed. The main concepts that involved the research were: violence, self-control, arrangement and power, according to the theory of civilizing processes by Norbert Elias and about sexuality, dialogues with Foucault’s perspectives and other studies were sought. Among the final concerns it is pointed out some discussions of family and school aspects. Family is a simpler aspect due to the interdependent limit to the small group. The school, as the first aspect out of the family, experienced by child and teenager have got influence from other cultures. It is approved the ability achieved by COMCEX at school, where the principal and the coordinators asserted its extreme importance to the school community. In COMCEX’s evaluations, it is observed in some cases the strengthening from “silence plot” by school and family, which prohibited that the accusation could be occurred, because of the afraid of retaliations and some discredit for justice. In the professionals’ testimonies during children’s care and COMCEX elements, it is clear the resemblance of sexual violence and several aspects that point out different perceptions about this subject.