ABSTRACT

The article aims to discuss the issue of vulnerability, broadening its horizons and touching on educational vulnerability with a focus on childhood on the streets. It’s important to understand that educational vulnerability is a factor to be considered in this scenario of protection and guarantees of rights, where thoughts and practices still remain colonizing. For this discussion, it’s necessary to approach the dynamics of children and adolescent living on the streets in the urban context, from the perspective of the politicization of childhood. The problematizations of this article, arising from university extension and action research in the context of Niterói’s public squares in conjunction with the praxis of social workers, come to contribute to other research practices that open the ears to listen to the voices that emerge from the streets, seeking to understand space as an instrument of real childhoods - within urban occupations, abandoned mansions, sheltered in tents and that play and produce life in the streets of the cities in which they occupy. The relations between teacher training, the school and the street urgently need other perspectives and practices, thus constituting childhood as political subjects. We warn that all transformations occur through and through the body. Looking closely at these bodies living on the streets can provide clues about forms of reception and pedagogical practices that reduce vulnerabilities, including education.

Keywords:
Vulnerabilities; Educational Vulnerability; Street Children and Adolescents; Education