The heterogeneity of f the social psychological phenomeno on of street children

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Ana Flavia Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Sampaio, Sônia Maria Rocha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Poiésis (Tubarão. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/Poiesis/article/view/710
• topic: street children; careeer in the street; heterogeneity psychosocial; Crianças em situação de rua; carreira de rua; heteronedeidade psicossociológica

This work has the main focus on n describing the culture of a group of children a and adolescents with street experience who frequent the same urban location. The research was deveeloped and based on sociology of childhood, symbolic c interactionism and ethnographic boarding tha at has the data which the own research has analyzed. MMoreover, the data has been collected througho out one year of direct observation on the children who o have been assisted by education of Axe project.. The paper discusses how children appropriate the st treet context, seeking to understand how differeent urban areas help to present a way to be chara acteristic of "street children"; it discusses the ways of presenting themselves and the functionaliity of these modes, both in terms of appear rance and language, describing their relationships wit th family and other adults, as these are key actor rs in building a career in the street; it discusses the ca areer in the street, in the defense of which each h child builds his own story, which can not be gene eralized, valuing the culture and knowledge th hat it constructed in interaction with reality to which it belongs.