O Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua e Paulo Freire

Abstract

The National Movement of Street Boys and Girls is a political social movement that seeks to articulate activists for the cause of the rights of children and adolescents in situations of social vulnerability. The Movement emerged in 1985 in the political scenario of the redemocratization of Brazilian politics and of questioning social policies and the educational model. The objective of this research is to analyze the educational practices developed and applied by the movement and its educators during the 1980s-1990s and the influence of Paulo Freire. For the development of this research we appropriated the methodology of discourse analysis under the Foucaultian perspective. As a result of this investigation, we observe that educators use the education method of the thinker Paulo Freire to achieve their political goals of guaranteeing and conquering childhood rights, as well as that children and adolescents themselves are transforming agents of their socialreality, understanding the right to education as a human right.