Teachers of Teenage Students in Conflict With the Law: Resources, Difficulties, and Perceptions

Abstract

Adolescents who comply with a socio-educational measure of probation have to attend school as an obligation. In this scenario, the teacher has a central role in promoting close relationships that help these students. The objective was to characterize the resources and difficulties reported by teachers regarding the teaching-learning process of adolescents on probation. Ten teachers of students on probation participated, from public schools in a city in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, who provided answers to a semi-structured interview. The analyzes were based on the Collective Subject Discourse technique, pointing out the teachers’ resources regarding planning, teaching, and establishing bonds; as the difficulties reported were the family’s absence at school, learning gaps and the lack of value for education. It is concluded that interventions that enhance the teachers’ social educational skills and promote relationships between the family and school microsystems of students on probation are important.