Rebellion, “factions” and the formation of consciousness

an analysis of the socio-educational system of Ceará

Abstract

The Brazilian socio-educational system, especially in Ceará, is not in line with the constitutional parameters advocated by the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) and the National Socio-Educational Service System (SINASE), which in 2015 was denounced and condemned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights due to overcrowding and recurrent allegations of torture. In this sense, as a way of asserting better structural and material conditions, teenagers who commit an infraction act commonly resort to coping strategies, most often through rebellion. In the present context, the factions are inserted in these spaces altering the dynamics of the rebellions, as well as of the process of formation of consciousness. Thus, this work seeks to reflect how the process of revolt and violent contestation, which leads to the process of rebellion, is forged in deprivation of freedom, associating it with the process of formation of consciousness. We start from the assumption that to break with the processes of alienation the adolescents need to be aware of the context of oppression in which they are inserted in order to organize themselves. The construction of this consciousness, however, is permeated by the insertion of the factions in the socio-educational centers.