O papel do educador na prevenção ao consumo abusivo de drogas

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research conducted at E.E. São João da Escócia, in the town of São Sebastião do Paraíso, Minas Gerais. This research was aimed at unveiling the importance of in-service training and also the perception by the community regarding the Drug Project Stay Clear of This. Such project had as its goal to train education professional of the aforementioned school to work with the health axis, presented in the Transversal Themes of the PCNs, especially the prevention of drug abuse. The investigation was centered on the positive and negative points of the project, developed between 2009 and 2010 in that educational institution. The methodological procedures of data gathering were based on semi structured interviews with teachers, specialists and the school management. The analysis of the statements and answers revealed that, after a year of implantation, the educators of the Escola Estadual São João da Escócia did not continue the activities proposed on the project. Many causes were attributed to the non-continuity on the project. Among them we highlight the lack of a school coordinator who would be responsible for it and the accumulation of attribution emanating from the central system. It was also possible to verify the difficulty the teachers had in working in an interdisciplinary fashion, as determined by the PCNs when it comes to transversal themes. This conclusions served as subsides to the elaboration of an Educational Care Plan, with an new outline to the next edition of the referred project which will take place at Escola Estadual Paula Frassinetti, in the same town. Finally, the work highlighted the importance of in-service training, as the world nowadays requires professional skills to deal with new situation to which the initial training may not have prepared. Therefore, projects that contemplate in-service training are a good solution to prepare these professionals to deal with the new demands presented in their daily lives.