O imaginário sobre drogas na formação docentes: o que se sabe, o que se fala e o que se faz

Abstract

The issue about drugs nowadays has been subordinated to two shafts: health and security. These two shafts are becoming more specialized each day, held its actions to investigators and specialists. Reducing and limiting the knowledge of all to the knowledge of the parts, and it is making distant the drug s issue to the educational processes. The education has an important part in the ethics formation about this theme; according to Freire (1996) the rejection to any kind of discrimination is part of the teaching s reasonable thought. Within the aim of investigating and problematizing the imaginary representations about drugs, we elaborated the Drogalidade course, as the main source of data s collection to this research. The workshops were elaborated according to the analysis of the themes, which in our point of view would be essential to focus on the process to the course s building. The collected data allow us to construct the analysis along the written and we also have been using theoretical references, according to its value, for interpretation of the collected material. In this process we had been providing meetings which would be stressed points and it were settled as possibilities, respecting obviously the limits of some obstacles. However, it was showing that different contributions can unite values, since the complexity of the subject will provide a multiplicity of knowledge, which will build a representation about drugs in the discourse and the look of 34 teachers, who were investigated, from different schools in Santa Maria/RS. Through the material produced in the workshops and also in the speech from the investigated teachers, it was seen that drugs representation are connected to the anti-drugs speech which is predominant in the actual society, it has had a repressive action as an effect, it has made teachers to perform a police function. We could verify this aspect through elements such as the lack of perception about drugs through the time and the importance of our representations as active citizen in these constructions; the stigma created around the drugs users contrary to the lack of look at the fact that all we are, in any way, user of some kind of drug too, covered by the myth of legality and illegality drugs, which makes this self-perception hard. In order to finish, - and what might be the most important analysis - was to verify the diverse ways which the investigated teaching staff are entwined in the seek to the pleasure and also feel afraid with a strange pleasure, in this case the illegal drugs, what can make them feel threaten in loosing their referential symbols and its meaning of continuity. Therefore, the anti-drugs representations are in consensus, they are formed of familiar contents, they are linked to the political authority, by the media, and it has formed myths, ideologies and patterns that are in the communication process to stand for the representations of the investigated teachers about the drugs phenomenon in our society. The present work is part of the Research Field Teaching Staff Formation of the Post-Graduate Program from UFSM.