THE MARIA DA PENHA LAW AT SCHOOL: the experience of high school students at a public school in Ceilândia with violence against women
Maria da Penha Law; violence against women; human rights; education; public policy.
The school is a suitable place for promoting public policies aimed at education in and for human rights, in order to provide teaching based on respect for all, preventing the spread of violent acts and enabling the formation of engaged citizens in confronting violence against women in an ethical educational process, guided by justice, diversity and equality. The main objective of this project is to investigate the representation of experiences that high school students at a public school in Ceilândia (Administrative Region of the Federal District) have of violence against women in the context of the Maria da Penha Law. The methodology adopted is a quantitative and qualitative approach from a feminist perspective, supported by bibliographical research, documentary research, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and the card game Emancipation: playing against machismo. It points to the imperative that everyone, State, school and society, in interdisciplinary work, intensify efforts to demystify and denounce acts that make female bodies vulnerable, providing the population with reflections on the true meanings of being masculine and feminine, of social roles and equality relationships permeated by human rights.