Adolescence, intertwined discourses and re-existence(s): observations on Socio-education in Brazil based on Pragmatic Networks

Abstract

Grounded in the 1988 Federal Constitution, Brazil has been known by its legal frameworks on defending the rights of minority groups over the last twenty years. Despite the diverse multidimensional problems, the country has developed a landmark path in providing citizen support to historically vulnerable social groups. This is the case of adolescents in conflict with the law, who, supported by the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA), find in Socio-education a means of redefining their life trajectories in society. Drawing on Critical Discourse Studies (ECD), this text intends to contribute to the socio-educational debate, interchanging considerations derived from the completed experience of developing a multisectoral project focused on Socio-education structure in Distrito Federal (Brazilian Federal District). The process of building a critic observatory, as well as methodologies aligned, were based on the discursive-critical approach of Pragmatic Networks. The Observatory project aimed to examine the role of education in the process of adolescents in conflict with the law social reintegration. It was observed that working with multimodal discursive genre structure based on Discursively Oriented Textual Practice - helped to visualize disagreements but also potential discursive ways for re-existence among the socio-educational participants who participated on the project.