Educação em direitos e defensoria pública: ausências e emergências no cotidiano de atendimento dos casos de família prestado às mulheres nas cidades de Santa Vitória do Palmar/RS e Manaus/AM

Abstract

Rights education, as an institutional function of the Public Defender's Office, has been recognized normatively since 2009 and, since then, it has been increasingly involved in the activities and discourses of and about the institution. As it constitutes the intersection between the fields of Education and Law, its premise is the establishment of dialogues between knowledge. The fundamental questions of the investigation consist of inquiring about the ways in which education in rights of the Public Defender is concretely built in the care of family cases provided to women in the cities of Santa Vitória do Palmar and Manaus, as well as about the existence curriculum to guide the activities carried out. The hypotheses revolve around the assertions that education in rights would be something interwoven and, therefore, present in the entire performance of the Public Defender's Office, admitting, however, varied approaches, depending on the context of its realization, besides that precisely these differences are the outlines of the itinerantly constructed curriculums. The objectives, therefore, run through the understanding of the modes of production of rights education in the mentioned scenarios, as well as the ways that curricula are designed in these same contexts. Methodologically, attentive to the considerations of the epistemologies of the South and to the instrumental provided by daily life, a study of a qualitative nature was chosen, with special emphasis on a “conversation” as a “methodological process”. The verified results point towards the existence of itinerant and, therefore, contextual curriculums that condense practices, routines and perceptions about the Law in each of the studied scenarios. In the mapped curriculums, there is an understanding of rights education as an instrument in itself capable of promoting qualitative changes with regard to the dynamics of access to justice, as well as an indicator artifact of other devices, such as the self-composed solution of conflicts, which also presents ability to contribute with guarantee of rights.