Limites e possibilidades do desenvolvimento regional a partir da aplicação do Estatuto da criança e do adolescente em escolas públicas de dois municípios da região do Vale do Rio Pardo.

Abstract

The present work objective is to analyse the limits and possibilities of the regional development applying the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente [Estatute of the Child and Adolescent] ECA at schools in two cities of Vale do Rio Pardo region, Rio Grande do Sul. The justification to this investigation is based on the importance that has been given to social participation and to the articulation of the civil society lately, which is associated to the crescent mobilization of endogenous factors that contribute to the promotion of regional development. After the realization of semi-structured interviews applied to professionals of the education area and collective interviews accomplished with students of three public schools, it was verified that ECA, example of rule inserted in a new social dimension of the right that occupies not only with legality, but also with legitimacy, is barely known and applied misunderstandingly on the reality investigated. Such circunstance fades the citizenship exercise, difficults the formation of a consensus about the rule elaborated by the State and fades the necessary dialogue existent between the law and the subjects that is destinated. The conditions in which some elements are applied, principles and rules of the rights of the child and adolescent result in what is denominated right of the school, carried in a positivist way, diferent from ECA structure. This context permits a series of refletions about the limits and possibilities of regional development, about the concept of citizenship and its exercise, and, finally, about the contribution of the right and education to build up the utopia of the regional development.