Direito social à educação no enfrentamento da violência contra a mulher: proposições legislativas e ferramentas de ação

Abstract

This study deals with the association between Social Right to Education and combating violence against women, based on National Congress proposed legislation about these issues. The research seeks to highlight which idea(s) of education stands by these proposals, additionally, verify how this social right is regulated in these documents, as well as observe how its actualization is planned. This choice is justified by the comprehension that violence against women has social and cultural roots, and also by the fact that education can be a useful tool to rebuild social signs implied in this issue, moreover, by the perception that combating violence against women must be revisited and updated, in the view of the statistics about the subject. The study begins by first discussing the origin and definitions attributed to Social Rights, and then specifically examining the Social Right to Education, commenting on its evolution and possible meanings of the term “education”. Subsequently, the historic path of how violence against women has been treated is explored, investigating Civil Law and Criminal Law aspects, and to conclude, it is shown statistical data about the topic. As for the methodology, it consists of a bibliographic and documentary research, and uses inductive approach as a method and content analysis as a technique, to examine proposed legislation. The results identified categories concerning to education approaches and purposes, and also to the tools mentioned in the documents. Regarding the first category, Education approaches, the highlights were the ideas of Education as a Social Right, as an instrument for professional qualification and as a way for cultural change. In the second category, Education purposes, it was identified that education is requested, mainly, in order to prevent violence against women, to rehabilitate the perpetrators of such violence and to emancipate victimized women. Finally, relating to the Effectiveness tools, it has been found that the documents either associate essentially to the formal field, indicate material measures or describe the recommended activities in detail.