EVERYDAY LIFE, CULTURE AND PARTICIPATION IN CHILDHOOD AND
YOUTH
This technical-scientific line of action aims to study the processes of social inclusion and exclusion in childhood and youth, as well as methods, strategies and techniques in occupational therapy that promote and support inclusion and social participation from/for/with children, adolescents and young people with disabilities, mental health problems, illness and vulnerability or social risk, taking into account the universe of activities, social relationships and contexts that make up their daily lives, such as activities that take place within the family, school, community spaces and their social groups.
It addresses the practical challenges related to precarious inclusion or lack of access to education, professional training, health and all essential conditions for social protection and for integral development, social circulation, coexistence and participation. In this sense, it also addresses issues of prejudice and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, color, race, functional capacity or income, as well as those centered on insufficient care and attention, home isolation and exclusion from cultural life.
This line of action addresses the study of practices that promote the integral development of children and youth, the right to play, school inclusion, deinstitutionalization, education for work, youth agency, access to and production of culture and the arts. It also encompasses the creation and development of material and technological resources to support the performance of daily activities of children, young people and their families, as well as the production and strengthening of their own cultural and artistic languages and expressions. Studies carried out in this line qualify professional
actions that are developed in the sphere of public policies in different services and projects that incorporate and value community and territorial contexts in the care of children, adolescents and young people, their families and communities.
Permanent professors
Adriana Marcondes Machado, Elizabeth Freire de Araújo Lima, Marie Claire
Sekkel, Maria Paula Panúncio, Maria Cristina Gonçalves Vicentin, Marilia
Bense Othero, Marta Carvalho de Almeida e Sandra Maria Galheigo.
SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, WORK, COEXISTENCE AND CARE FOR ADULTS
AND THE ELDERLY
This technical-scientific line of action aims to study, develop and qualify professional actions in occupational therapy, including methods, strategies and
techniques, carried out in community and territorial contexts aimed at rescuing, maintaining or expanding autonomy for daily activities and social participation of adults and the elderly, who are in situations of vulnerability, with permanent or temporary limitations, or experiencing processes of rupture of social and support networks, in the sense of promoting social inclusion and guaranteeing
rights.
Professional actions focus on different dimensions of everyday life such as self- care and caring for others, coexistence, community and social life, cultural experiences, and work, from the perspective of social participation, as guided by different inclusive programs and policies. It seeks to meet ethical and political perspectives to expand access and exercise of rights and existential conditions in an increasingly diverse spectrum of ways of living. In this sense, it addresses problems related to social inclusion such as:
- prejudice and discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, functional capacity, income or age;
- negligence in care;
- violations of rights and different forms of participation;
- home isolation;
- limitations or restrictions on performing daily activities;
- lack of access to material and technological resources for daily activities and community life;
- the need to reactivate and reconnect knowledge and practices produced in non-academic environments (artistic, community, ritualistic);
- lack of access, precarious insertion or difficulty in staying in the workforce;
limitations on daily activities and restrictions on participation that often accompany the aging process;
It encompasses practices that promote, for adults and the elderly:
- the confrontation of situations of neglect, discrimination, violence, rights violations and stigma;
- independence and autonomy in self-care, living, work, family and community life;
- self-care, strengthening collective and territorial attention and common production;
- access and promotion of rights, production of social and cultural goods and values; expansion and enhancement of social and support networks in family and/or community contexts;
- deinstitutionalization processes, construction of territorial networks of care and support and promotion of community coexistence;
- creation and development of material and technological resources to support the performance of daily activities, as well as the production and strengthening of cultural and artistic languages and expressions.
Studies carried out in this line qualify professional actions that are developed in the sphere of inclusive public policies in different services and projects in community and territorial contexts of support for adults and the elderly, their families and communities.
Permanent professors
Claudia Pellegrini Braga, Eliane Dias Castro, Erika Inforsato, Fátima Corrêa Oliver, Maria Helena Morgani de Almeida, Regina Célia Fiorati, Rosé Colom Toldra and Talita Naiara Rossi da Silva.
Collaborating professors
Denise Dias Barros and Maria Fernanda de Silvio Nicácio
UPDATE: MARCH, 15TH 2025