ABSTRACT
Due to the needed interfaces between Psychology and Human Rights, this study intends to report and analyze, reflectively, an intervention in Human Rights Education with adolescents who took part in a social project of a city located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. As the methodological path chosen for the study, an account of experience with Human Rights Education workshops that took place during the months of May and June of 2017. The participants were 15 adolescents of different educational levels, with a mean age of 13.9 years, all of whom participated in a social project. The experience was reported in a Field Journal and analyzed through Minayo’s Thematic Analysis methodology. According to the study’s, challenges and contributions of Psychology in the development of Human Rights Education workshops with adolescents were reported. The importance of building the Human Rights Education workshops with the group was noticed, which allows the sharing and recognition of the participants’ reality. Thus, the importance of addressing this topic along with adolescents, as well as the power in the contribution of Psychology to the articulation with Human Rights are highlighted.
Keywords:
Human rights; psychology; adolescents