“I just want to be happy”

life trajectories of adolescents under socio-educational measure

Abstract

It aims to analyze the trajectories of adolescents’ lives that abide by social in Don Bosco Education Center (Fortaleza-Ceará), enabling you to reflect critically on their prospects. The methodology, participatory type, make reflections and possible productions of adolescents based on text, music, poetry, pictures, dynamics and drama. Data collection occurred during the months of August and September 2009. A total of nine meetings were funded in pedagogical planning of the institution of these months, Popular Culture and Folklore and Popular Culture and Fatherland, journeyed field. The research presents first a brief history about the laws and welfare measures. We analyzed the socioeconomic profile of the Brazilian population infant juvenile and adolescents author of the infraction. We analyzed the socioeconomic profile of the Brazilian population infantojuvenil and adolescents author of the infraction. In the analysis, it is understood that income concentration increases, preventing the distribution of wealth, and that the share of the population is young and suffers with the structural problems. It is understood, also described that happiness is not related to individualistic and bourgeois aspirations, but with an internal movement that drives life. It is seeking decent living conditions and good relations with family and community.