ABSTRACT
The object of the present study was drug education to
be aired on the radio in urban peripheral areas targeted at young individuals.
The scientific literature shows that young individuals are taken as subjects
influenced by advertising, which would share the responsibility for the
consumption of drugs among young individuals. The theoretical framework was
based on Marxism. The overall objective was to develop a selection, creation,
organization, and mediatization process for drug education with the
participation of young individuals. This is a qualitative research conducted
with emancipatory action research methodology (EAR), which is based on a
dialectical method. There is active participation of research subjects in the
EAR, and they carry out permanent dialogue and problematization of the reality.
The participants of the EAR were young individuals interested in the topic, who
attended a public elementary and high school in the region of Guaianases, São
Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil. We characterized the Index of Social
Reproduction (ISR) of the young individuals' families using a standardized
questionnaire. Thirteen workshops were carried out to develop the EAR. The
workshops were characterized by a participatory research group method, an
educational process of reflection and praxis transformation. The results were
analyzed according to the daily life representations category. These
representations manifest themselves through different forms in society,
relating to the material basis of work and life of social classes. They include
two elements: (a) nuclear, which relates to convictions that arise from the
reflection and internalized choices; and (b) peripheral, which refers to
opinions arising from the acceptance of ideas socially disseminated. The
results were: 13 young people aged between 15 and 17 years attended the
workshops, nine of which were male. Twelve families were categorized through
the ISR. Seven of them were ruled by women and three received support from the
Family Allowance Program. Two young individuals worked and studied at the same
time. Many convictions of the young individuals arose in the EAR process, since
it enabled reflection and reinterpretation of the reality assessed. The daily
life representations were related to the peripheral geo-social space in which
the young individuals lived, social needs, and sociability. The media
representations of the peripheral area and its forms of sociability were topics
problematized by the young individuals, who criticized the way their reality
was mediatized. They were convinced that the problems they faced were not
conveyed correctly, since the young individuals of the peripheral areas were
exposed as being outside the social order, dangerous, and drug users. The young
individuals highlighted the controller presence of the State in the peripheral
areas and that their social needs were not met. They considered that the ruling
class sought to isolate them in the peripheral areas and that the unmet social
needs led young individuals to use drugs. They were convinced that their songs
were an important means to develop emancipatory education about drugs. The
guidelines of education about drugs were built throughout the research process,
and the mediatization time of the program was the arrival point for the young
participants. For others, it will be the starting point for carrying out
further discussions. The EAR proved to be powerful to know the daily life
representations of young individuals from the peripheral areas and the
construction of a radio program for education about drugs.
Keywords: Public Health, Adolescent, Street Drugs, Health
Communication, Health Education, Social Class.
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