2012, Number 1
Clarifications about the educator’s work for children in situations of risk and homeless
Palomino GL
Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 186-205
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ABSTRACT
The educational model for children in situations of risk, designed by Taracena and Albarrán (2006) is an alternative to the system, it brings to the socialization spaces of these groups the basic academic aspects and it implies for educators the organization of working schemes that adequate the contents and activities from the living conditions and necessities form the different populations with whom they work. In order to continue with the modifications to the manual in this document it is recovered the sense of the function of the educator involved in the intervention processes, for it to serve as a heuristic guide for the elaboration of future proposals. The question that guided this paper was: How is it signified, the activity done by the participants, who applied the psychopedagogical units. Objective: To recover the meaning of being an educator of children who are in situations of risk and living in the streets.Methodology: The methodology used is of qualitative nature, the investigational device was the interview based in the objectives of the manual; the interviewee were five psychologists who got their undergraduate degree in psychology, who carried out several activities for the application of the educational model, the interviewer was a psychologist who shared these characteristics. The main aspects of the investigation are constituted by the discourse of the interviewee, the categories were: professional actions and educator, the significations that emerged were: comprehension, empathy and rules. By comprehension we mean their formation as psychologists, they recognize the difference of these individuals who have lived in the boundaries of the socialization institutions. The meaning of being an educator coincides with the former: commitment, support, regulation of the actions and ways of living; their presence with the population could even be granted as a path to follow in order to avoid a future of living in the streets, this could help to transcend the limitations that this population has so far erected between them and the institutional life where they maintaining a considerable distance from the school is a symptom of their relationship with others.
REFERENCES
Taracena, E. y Albarrán, G. (2006). Modelo Educativo para Niños y Jóvenes en Situación de Calle. México. Secretaría de Educación Pública / Subsecretaría de Investigación Básica y Normal / Dirección de Fomento a la Investigación Educativa. [en red] http://básica.sep.gob.mx/DGDGIE/programas/ninoscalle/materiales.asp