Education of street boys and girls in Londrina

Abstract

This text deals with the history of the care for poor children and adolescents in Brazil and in Londrina. It describes the social context of the city and analyses the performance of the municipal public authority related to the street boys during the administration periods of 1993-1996 and 1997-2000, indicating similarities and differences in terms of realizing and conducting this task. It prioritizes the boys evaluation of the programs and projects especially designed for them. They come to the conclusion that these programs do not fulfill the needs of this population because they objectively want to fulfill the predominant political, economical and social interests. It also evaluates that the libertarian rnethods proposed by educators such as Paulo Freire, Cesare La Rocca, Antonio Carlos Gomes da Costa among other, are the ones that come more closely to reality and, consequently, of the effective solutions for the social problem in question.