Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VITÓRIA LOBO TRINDADE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VITÓRIA LOBO TRINDADE
DATE: 24/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Recife (Google Meet)
TITLE:

CHILDHOOD, VULNERABILITY AND PUBLIC POLICY: THE POPINHO CENTER IN SOCIAL ASSISTANCE IN RECIFE

KEY WORDS:

Right to the city; Children and adolescents living on the streets; Street social education

PAGES: 44
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This research focuses on understanding how children and adolescents living on the streets appropriate the Centro Popinho (Center for the Homeless Population), producing meanings, bonds, and practices that give new meaning to the facility, the institutional daily life, and the city itself. Situated within the field of Social Assistance in Recife, the study considers the articulations between social education, the guarantee of rights, and the Right to the City, as well as the normative and operational limits that shape the facility's operation. The research starts from an understanding of the city as a territory of disputes, the production of life, and the exercise of citizenship (Lefebvre; Harvey; Santos), and of childhood as a social, generational, and relational category, marked by agency, the production of meaning, and the intersections of race, class, and power (Sarmento; Prout; Corsaro; Carneiro; Mbembe). The research problem questions how the social education practices developed at the Centro Popinho (Center for the Homeless) simultaneously relate to the guidelines of Social Assistance policy, the guarantee of the rights of children and adolescents, and the ways in which these subjects protagonize, challenge, and resignify the facility and the city based on their needs and experiences. The central hypothesis argues that, although the Centro Popinho represents a relevant municipal innovation, the fragility of specific normative parameters and structured flows of referral and counter-referral may limit the scope of its actions, even though the daily practices of social education produce significant bonds, meanings, and experiences of rights. Methodologically, this is a qualitative research of ethnographic inspiration, which articulates document analysis, participant observation, focus groups with children and adolescents, semi-structured interviews with professionals, and systematic records in a field diary. It is expected that the results will contribute to a critical understanding of the potentialities and limitations of street social education within the scope of public policy, as well as to the strengthening of analytical and institutional references on the care of children and adolescents in street situations.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - LUCIANO MÁRCIO FREITAS DE OLIVEIRA - IPEA
Presidente - OTAVIO AUGUSTO ALVES DOS SANTOS
Interna - RAQUEL DE ARAGAO UCHOA FERNANDES