Scientific initiation junior program: reflecting to build the future Abstract
This article reports an experience in the PIBIC-EM Program, at UNICAMP. It aimed to train young multipliers of public health policies in municipal schools of Limeira. Some characteristics of action research were used as a methodological basis. It was assumed that adolescents are the target of actions, but that they generally do not actively participate in discussions regarding their condition as adolescents. We sought to reflect and build, along with these young people, a different way of thinking and acting as citizens, insofar as we worked along the lines of internalized research, understood here as an everyday attitude to be developed in different ways. The nature of the project allowed us to assist in the construction of a critical thinking, in the structuring of the identity of these young people, in the instrumentalization to identifying problems, and in the performance in their communities of origin. The adolescents were motivated to think, reflect, discuss, build solution strategies, and move from their role as victims to the role of actors and authors of the process.
Keywords public policies; formation; adolescents; action-research; Pibic-EM