Educação, direito e democracia: reconhecimento e dignidade dos adolescentes inadotáveis em situação de acolhimento institucional no Estado de Alagoas

Abstract

In Brazil, the idea of the public sphere dates back to the 20th century and goes beyond the state structure. However, the configuration of a society that has an excluding and selective profile is really worrying, which is marked by absenteeism from public dialogue spaces when the importance of democratizing this space, which is full of indices and actors of social destructibility, the specimen of adolescents available for adoption under the aegis of the State of Alagoas. Thus, this study aimed to investigate what these determining factors are regarding unadoptable adolescents in institutional care in the State of Alagoas, as well as to elucidate that education has a key role in the lives of these unadoptables - since it is also a means professionalization, access to University, emancipation and autonomy – being one of the basic rights guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and by the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA). This is a study that adopted a predominantly exploratory-descriptive perspective as to the level of depth and bibliographic research to the ends, as its approach was qualitative. Due to the study variables, these types of research were used, justified by their particularities. For this reason, the following descriptors were sought: adoption, reception, public sphere, rights and duties of children and adolescents, socio-familial matrix, inclusion of the other, in order to support the qualitative analysis and final considerations of the data obtained. Furthermore, the findings of this study enabled an understanding of the adoption process, from the managerial perspective of those involved in this process: family and/or guardians, State and society, as well as contributing to the maximization of the integral pleasure aimed at unadoptable adolescents. From the particularities regarding the results obtained from the researched shelter, it is not possible to generalize to the other shelters in the city of Maceió, as it is only the reality of the research locus chosen in this investigation. Therefore, it was proposed to expand the study into another shelter in the city for comparison purposes, or at all, since Maceió holds about 33% of the shelters existing in the State of Alagoas.