Banca de DEFESA: CAROLINE GONÇALVES REZENDE

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STUDENT : CAROLINE GONÇALVES REZENDE
DATE: 12/12/2025
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/jkj-kqah-wrv
TITLE:

Between Walls and Possibilities: A Decolonial Study of the Socio-Educational School. 

KEY WORDS:

socio-educational school; deprivation of liberty; emancipatory education; decoloniality; autoethnography.

PAGES: 109
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

The socio-educational school constitutes a space deeply marked by contradictions, revealing persistent tensions between education and punishment. Although central to guaranteeing the right to education for adolescents deprived of liberty, it remains marginal within Brazilian educational debates, despite being a locus where competing societal projects are confronted. Drawing on an existential geographic perspective and decolonial frameworks, this study examines the State School Irmã Terezinha de Barros, situated inside a socio-educational facility, to analyze how school space is produced and how it embodies disputes between emancipatory pedagogical practices and disciplinary logics inherited from the penal system. Employing a qualitative, embodied, and autoethnographic approach inspired by Paulo Freire and bell hooks, the research demonstrates that the socio-educational school, by reproducing spatial forms characteristic of incarceration—bars, surveillance, containment, and silencing—restricts possibilities for emancipation and learning. In doing so, it reinforces racial and social inequalities that historically structure the “place” assigned to Black and marginalized youth in Brazil. Records of lived experience, photographs, and narratives of everyday practices reveal that the absence of specific planning for socio-educational schools undermines their very raison d’être. The study argues that, for education in contexts of deprivation of liberty to fulfill its social and formative functions, the school space must be reconfigured through an ethic of care, the recognition of human dignity, and the affirmation of alternative epistemologies. Consequently, the transformation of socio-educational schools requires not only pedagogical innovation but also architectural and political reconfigurations. It demands an institutional commitment to creating material, symbolic, and relational conditions that enable a genuinely liberatory educational practice aligned with broader horizons of social justice.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1657619 - ANITA LOUREIRO DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - 1946744 - ROBERTA CARVALHO ARRUZZO
Externa à Instituição - ANA CLÁUDIA CARVALHO GIORDANI - UFF