O teatro e o adolescente em conflito com a lei: análise do sentido de uma proposta sócio-educativa

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to understand the meanings of a socialeducational experience performed by the theater in Febem Arte - Cultural Supervision of Febem - with internal and egressed adolescents that committed infraction acts. The Vygotsky theoretical presuppositions and the reflection of the Social Exclusion/lnclusion Dialectic Studies Nucleus are the guidelines to the adolescent conception and of the social inclusion and exclusion process of the present work. The social disparity and the naturalized meanings of adolescence imposes the restriction of the potentialities that are developed along the youth, as the abstraction capacity, the thought by concepts, and a new creativity quality-characterizing a perversa way of inclusion, specially for the low-income populations. The basic procedure of the research was the interview, organized in two different blocks. In the first interview block two internal adolescents and one egressed were interviewed in Febem Institution; it was algo realizedinterviews with the art-educators and the institution employees aiming to understand the institution context, the theater group and the educational-art performed in Febem Arte. The second interview block, realized, with three egressed adolescents, was oriented by the questions given in the first block, aiming to understand the transformations provoked by the theater in relation with the restraints determined by the social exclusion/inclusion. Art, specially the theater, is introduced as a way of potentializing the development of certain abilities as the expression of feelings and emotions, the opening in the sense of relating to the others, as well as the recognition of new identity possibilities. The theater meaning is Glose to what Vygotsky defines as catharsis: the emotion transformation, in a pleasant way, being the adrenaline one of the pleasure sources, similar to others risky situations already experienced batere. The ambiguity and the difficulties are disclosed in the process of getting out of the institution, in confronting the theater and the difficulties found in our social organization. The artistic practices seek the adolescents emancipation and creativity development, to be opened in relation to the others and to be able to create union bonds; they alone are not able to eliminate the dynamic of perversa inclusion experienced and the suffering. The prejudica, the subsistence and job difficulties are overwhelming and display the theater limits, forcing them to an extraordinary effort to face the social conditions out of the crime world. It is quite evident the need of transformation in the social structure and Febem Institution, in order to create to the adolescents, real insertion possibilities for guarantying their subsistence with dignity and happiness