Vai passar nessa avenida um samba popular: movimento social em defesa dos direitos de crianças e adolescentes na constituição cidadã

Abstract

This is an investigation that in the Line of Research of Infancy, Youth and Education of the Program of Post-Graduation in Education of the State University of Rio De Janeiro. The central question of research is to analyze the Social Movement that, during the constituent process of 1988, forged a new concept of infancy and considered new social practices in relation to the child and the adolescent in Brazil included in articles 227 and 228 of the Constitution. This research is of qualitative nature and deal with analysis of documents related to the question of the infancy and of youth directed to the Subcommission of the Family, the Minor and the Senior Citizens. Those were: (i) Suggestions sent to Representative Entities of Society, (ii) the Popular Emendations and (iii) Audiences. The study of texts evidenced the social practical urgency of a rupture with the existing ones. There is, according to new social actors, consensus in relation to the guarantee of rights of children and adolescents influenced by the arguments of Universal declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1959. We stand out participation of the National Commission Child and Adolescent in discussions and organization of the proposals and suggestions directed to the National Congress. It was possible to investigate the influential participation of the Church in this process and debate around the FUNABEM. The research contributed for the agreement of popular participation as instrument of pressure in the formation of the field of child and of the adolescent in the Constituent process.