Research Conducted

The research activities and experiences of this group are two decades old, linked to the Observatory of Violence in Schools PUCPR and the UNESCO Chair in Youth, Education and Society. The group’s studies focus on human rights, outlining possibilities for prevention and intervention for violence in the school space, with the implementation of policies and practices based on human rights. The research has approached issues related to guarantee of rights, inclusive curricular practices in dialogue with diversity, emancipatory evaluation, human rights education, right to education, and teacher training. More recently, we have included in the studies some aspects of the right to education and the right to child health in contexts of child poverty to contribute to the training of education and health professionals who act in the guarantee of children’s rights.

The research projects developed emphasize the institutional violence of/at school, mainly from the curriculum and educational evaluation. The studies discuss violence in schools, bringing the triangulation between empirical data, traces of educational policies, and systematized argumentation by authors who study the theme. In the educational policies of past decades, contradictions that cross such policies and create tensions are observed, focusing on the guarantee or violation of rights in schools. The evidence of such contradictions is noticeable in political guidelines of curriculum and evaluation, that is, while curriculum guidelines adopt the principle of diversity and guarantee of rights, those related with evaluation present traits of meritocracy and standardization. The traits of these contradictions are expressed in the manifestations of subjects heard in the surveys. Thus, human rights education promoting dialogue with children’s and youth groups is a strong possibility to attribute a new meaning to school as an environment for guaranteeing rights and justice, by coexistence with diversity in curricular practices, from the perspective of critical cross-cultural dialogue.  

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