Dança de rua como processo educativo estético com adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social

Abstract

This text describes the study done with the objective to investigate the meaning of street dance and what educational processes happen to teenagers who use this expressive language and find themselves in a social vulnerability situation; educational process and language are included in this king of research. It is about qualitative research, described as a study of ethonographical case, phenomenological type. In the group there were fifteen male teenagers whose age group ranges from fourteen to sixteen years old. They are participants of an extension course project of Physical Education and Physiotherapy at Passo Fundo University. The reported data are results of observation carried out during the workshop. The observation was registered in a field diary and then, understood based on the phenomenological method proposed by Giorgi (1985) and Comiotto (1992). After the application of phenomenological method to collect date, three essential aspects have come up: Sociability and resignification of group; street dance and gestural strategy; corporeity and esthetic education. The meaning of street dance for teenagers is related to its understanding as an essential element for the manifestation of its culture and assertion of their identities; their experiences enable them to resignify their lives as a whole in the world. It is an educational and esthetic process which made it possible the shimmer of construction of a worthy life for person, at the same time, they become more prepared to handle with risky situations