Drugs in School: analysis of social voices

• Main Authors: João Paulo Pereira Barros (Author), Veriana de Fátima Rodrigues Colaço (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 0100-3143; 2175-6236
• Keywords: Adolescência. Drogas. Escola; Education; L; Education (General); L7-991
• Source: Educação & Realidade, Vol 40, Iss 1 (2014)

This article aims to analyze social voices at play in the production of meanings about drugs among adolescents in a group discussion on health in the school context. Based on Public Health and the legacy of Vigotski e Bakhtin on the processes of signification, data for a Master thesis, developed by means of participant observation and a discussion group in a public school in Fortaleza/CE, are used. The results indicate tensions between social voices on the claims of adolescents about drugs, highlighting the strength with which a speech alluding to the war on drugs and prohibitionist strategies voices still circulate in the school context, despite the emergence of the harm reduction perspective.