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Contributos da Psicologia Comunitária para a criação de repostas educativas integradas dirigidas às comunidades ciganas
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A presente investigação incide sobre as oportunidades e desafios existentes no trabalho de intervenção comunitária junto de um grupo de jovens mulheres ciganas, levado a cabo pelo
Centro de Desenvolvimento Comunitário da Ameixoeira (CDCA), no contexto de um bairro
de habitação social de Lisboa. São discutidas tanto as motivações como os desafios encontrados pelas jovens participantes num projecto educativo e de formação (PIEF) a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e conversas informais com técnicos e com a comunidade alvo das intervenções. A intenção deste estudo é a de reflectir sobre estratégias de trabalho conjunto e participativo, eficazes para um desenvolvimento comunitário e territorial
sustentável.
A investigação qualitativa apresenta-se como o melhor instrumento de auscultação deste
grupo, não só extremamente vulnerável como também alvo de reduzidos envolvimento e
atenção por parte de investigadores. Haverá ainda que destacar que um efectivo envolvimento das comunidades ciganas se baseia na necessidade de se estabelecerem relações mínimas de confiança entre comunidade e investigadores e, nesse sentido, o tempo parece desempenhar um papel fundamental. É ainda discutido, numa reflexão teórica, a importância do foco das
parcerias entre organizações e associações que trabalham junto das comunidades, e os
organismos de poder político, pretendendo mostrar-se a ligação essencial entre as
intervenções à escala local e as decisões ao nível político e que cremos que deva ser
estreitada. Ainda dentro desta reflexão teórica temos como objectivo a análise de alguns temas como as oportunidades de escolha, os percursos individuais e estratégias de sobrevivência cultural, e a relação destes com as questões de género no interior das comunidades ciganas.
This research focuses on the opportunities and challenges that exist in the work of community intervention with a group of young Roma women, carried out by the Centre for Community Development of Ameixoeira (CDCA) in the context of a social housing neighborhood of Lisbon. Both the motivations and the challenges faced by these young women that participated in an education and training project (PIEF) are discussed based on semi-structured interviews and informal conversations with staff and the community targeted of the interventions. The intention of this study is to reflect on strategies for working together and in a participatory way, in order to accomplish a community and territorial sustainable development. Qualitative research is presented as the best set of methods for working with this group, not only extremely vulnerable, but also reductively involved by researchers in their works. It should also be noted that the effective involvement of Roma communities is based on the need to establish minimum relations of trust between the community and researchers and, in this sense, time seems to play a key role. It is also discussed in a theoretical reflection, the importance of the focus on partnerships between organizations and associations that work with communities and the political power, intending to show the essential link between the interventions at local level and the decisions at the political level. Within this theoretical reflection, is also our aim to analyze some other issues such as choice opportunities, individual pathways and strategies of cultural survival in their relationship with gender issues within the Roma communities.
This research focuses on the opportunities and challenges that exist in the work of community intervention with a group of young Roma women, carried out by the Centre for Community Development of Ameixoeira (CDCA) in the context of a social housing neighborhood of Lisbon. Both the motivations and the challenges faced by these young women that participated in an education and training project (PIEF) are discussed based on semi-structured interviews and informal conversations with staff and the community targeted of the interventions. The intention of this study is to reflect on strategies for working together and in a participatory way, in order to accomplish a community and territorial sustainable development. Qualitative research is presented as the best set of methods for working with this group, not only extremely vulnerable, but also reductively involved by researchers in their works. It should also be noted that the effective involvement of Roma communities is based on the need to establish minimum relations of trust between the community and researchers and, in this sense, time seems to play a key role. It is also discussed in a theoretical reflection, the importance of the focus on partnerships between organizations and associations that work with communities and the political power, intending to show the essential link between the interventions at local level and the decisions at the political level. Within this theoretical reflection, is also our aim to analyze some other issues such as choice opportunities, individual pathways and strategies of cultural survival in their relationship with gender issues within the Roma communities.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Comunitária apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário
Keywords
Mulheres ciganas Intervenção comunitária Educação Roma women Community intervention Education