EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE BRAZILIAN CONTEX

The article emerges from a dissertation developed in the Post-Graduation Program in Education of the URI-Campus of Frederico Westphalen, having as background the constitution of public policies and the rights of children and adolescents in Brazil. The discussions are the result of empirical and theoretical research, covering violence in school and the role of the social protection network in accessing the rights of children and adolescents. It was sought to go through the historical, legal and conceptual frameworks that guided the debates of the historical trajectory of public policies, investigations about violence in the school and the constitution of the rights of the child and the adolescent. The historical cut is in the 1980s, when polls on violence and school emerge with consistency. As for the legal aspects, it was sought to elucidate the first laws of the protection of children and youth, and the journey to the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. The focus of the violation of the rights of children and adolescents encompasses family and society, and the organization of public policies in the contemporary context. It was found that we still live the dilemma of the dichotomy theory and practice, in the field of ineffectiveness when it comes to action of legal precepts, which fundamentally becomes a political problem and not legal. Therefore, it is in the municipal policy for the protection of the rights of children and adolescents based on the tripod plan, fund and council that will be projected actions with operational base to guarantee the human rights of the child and the adolescent.