Sentidos do vínculo afetivo para educadores de instituições de acolhimento: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The distancing family should be an exceptional measure and provisional applied as a measure of protection to the child at risk personal or social, such as advocated by the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Art 101 parágrafo único). These services are used to provide a healthy environment and quality for the development of the child and to guarantee their rights. It is in this environment that many children and adolescents live part of their history and build new ties, in relations with adults and children of the institution. In the daily life of the child and adolescent in the host institution the figure of social educator has fundamental importance. In the context of concrete relations observed in a host service the Curitiba metropolitan region we sought to identify and analyze the meanings of affective attachment for the social educators. We think the bond from an institutional perspective, using as a reference to the research of Marlene Guirado. Through the observation of the everyday life of the institution and the discourse of educators in the interviews, we seek to give visibility to the senses (the abandonment, aggression, indifference and the positive affects as the affection and care) produced by the educators for the bond. We realized that the family institution still prevails in this kind of care and that educators face great difficulty in taking the limits in the relationship with the children. The important investment that should happen in the processes of selection and training of social educator is not happening