In this article, we seek to analyze the senses of opportunity that poor young people from Rio de Janeiro attribute to the school and to understand if, for these young people, school and schooling have a value in the now and/or imagined later. A total of 51 youths participated in this research, being students in elementary schools, from two public municipal schools of Rio de Janeiro, with ages between 14 and 16....
CORDEIRO, Andréa Carla Filgueiras; MENEZES, Jaileila de Araújo; CASTRO, Lucia Rabello de. Oficinas da cidade em Fortaleza. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, Rio Grande do Sul, v. 15, n.1, p. 53-61, 2002.; This paper presents an intervention-based project with children in the city of Fortaleza, when children were asked to elaborate, through focused group discussions, their constructions about living in the city. I...
Study based on the evidence that children and adults lack references on how they deal with each other, which has being showed by the young generation through confronting attitudes toward adults. When the historical route of authority is considered, one perceives it is not tied to one meaning only but takes different contours. This article aims to discuss the relations between authority and hierarchy, authority ...