Programa de erradicação do trabalho infantil: uma análise das práticas socioculturais e educativas desenvolvidas na cidade de Cajazeiras-PB.

Abstract

This study intends to launch a closer look at the Program for the Eradication of Child Labor (PETI) in order to gather concrete data and do analysis on the socio-cultural and educational practices developed in its Extended Day, but also analyze the importance of the project to educators contained therein, to ascertain their professional training, and verify the family's participation in projects to generate jobs and income offered by the program. It presents historical aspects of the emergence of child labor in Brazil, especially in the state of Paraíba, giving reference to PETI as assistance programs for children and adolescents. It Situates laws and guidelines, such as the 1988 Federal Constitution and the Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA – Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente) as essential to the defense and protection of both. The methodological approach has a focus on the explanatory and descriptive research, with questionnaires to a sample of 10 subjects who develop tasks in PETI in the city of Cajazeiras - PB. Based on ideas of experts on the subject researched here plus data emitted by active professionals, it is possible to expand knowledge of PETI on its goals and features, culminating with a concrete analysis of social and educational activities developed in the Extended Day Program with a view to full socialization of children, adolescents and their families.