Esporte para jovens acolhidos em abrigos institucionais: um meio para a inclusão social

Abstract

The goal of this work is to analyze how the practice of sport, in particular the mode of athletics, contributes in the process of social inclusion of young people accommodated in the Houses Homes Morada of Betinho, Manaíra, and in the House of welcome Men of the city of João Pessoa, emphasizing the transformations that have occurred in their lives. The methodology used in this work was social search is a process that uses scientific methodology, by my own which it can gain new knowledge in the field of social reality. Using the qualitative approach, which according to Thomas and Nelson (2002), since the early 1980, internationally, guiding important research in physical education. According to these authors, researches are carried out mainly in environments of everyday life, such as schools, gymnasiums, other sports facilities etc. The methodological feature has used a diving actually studied and triggered the involvement of subjects in problematic situations experienced. From a theoretical point of view, spoke about the principles of Social inclusion and Social exclusion, while discussed the legal bases of institutional shelters nationwide and in the municipality of João Pessoa. The results obtained revealed that the aspects of social inclusion are very clear for children and adolescents. When we investigate the sport within and outside the shelters, we note that, due to serious problems and difficulties faced by children and adolescents, the effective practice of the sport has an engine that achieves full purpose, in which sport they propose within the institutions, which is the social inclusion, even the shelter being a source of exclusion.