THE ACTION OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN JOÃO PESSOA: WHAT WILL IT BE INTENDED FOR?
Non-governmental organizations, education, childhood and adolescence.
This work aimed to investigate the role of non - governmental organizations (NGOs) in the education of children and adolescents in the municipality of João Pessoa/PB. The study was developed with seven organizations in six districts of the city, from interviews, observations and reading of pedagogical projects. NGOs, located in communities in vulnerable situations, develop training actions with the children and youths complementing formal education. The performance of these non-profit institutions is a strategy, especially in the new millennium, to combat poverty through education by means of social inclusion and job qualification. To this end, the State, the private sector and society share this responsibility. The analysis perspective of this study was based on the construction of categories related to literature. The results indicate that citizenship is the main focus of the work developed, through activities in the areas of arts and culture. The conception of education is based on the perspective of transformation at the individual level, through social insertion, improvement of life and understanding of the reality. The fight for social rights constituted in society is one of the flags of the organizations. In practice, recreational and playful activities are carried out in all NGOs, and in some, there is also the development of reflective and critical work. It is concluded that the work of NGOs is significant for the children and adolescents served, because they have access to knowledge and the development of artistic skills and abilities. In this way, the changes that the NGOs can produce take place through an education that aims to help the process of empowerment and criticality of the public served. However, the limits of the work were found regarding the distance between what is prescribed in the pedagogical project and what happens in practice and in the challenges regarding the sustainability of NGO projects.