Counteracting the stigma of homelessness: The Finnish Housing First strategy as educational work

Autores

  • Annalisa Sannino Tampere University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2018.3.32025

Palavras-chave:

Stigma of homelessness, Secondary deficit, Expansive learning, Agency formation, Finnish Housing First strategy.

Resumo

There is growing concern globally about homelessness in many affluent cities and the stigma attached to this phenomenon. The study focuses on the ways in which the Housing First strategy developed and implemented in Finland since 2008 is counteracting the stigma of homelessness by facilitating collective learning and agency formation. The study substantiates this conceptual argument with the help of examples from accounts by young people experiencing or having experienced homelessness, and by professionals working in supported housing units. The theoretical framework of the study builds on the Vygotskian concept of secondary deficit and the activity-theoretical concepts of expansive learning and transformative agency. The analysis leads to an initial model depicting the collective learning and agency steps among institutional actors and neighborhoods. The analysis shows the educational role played by multiple actors and institutions in the Finnish homelessness strategy to foster new modes of actions not only among the clients but also within the broad society. This role is exerted by means of systematically implemented negotiations and agreements which establish effective pathways out of marginalization and out of stigmatic orientations.

 

*** Contrapondo o estigma da falta de moradia: a estratégia do programa finlandês Housing First como trabalho educacional ***

Há uma crescente preocupação global em relação à falta de moradia em muitas cidades afluentes e o estigma associado a esse fenômeno. O estudo foca em como o programa Housing First foi desenvolvido e implementado na Finlândia desde 2008 e está neutralizando o estigma da falta de moradia, facilitando o aprendizado coletivo e a formação de agentes. O estudo comprova este argumento conceitual com a ajuda de exemplos de relatos de jovens que vivenciam ou vivenciaram a falta de moradia e de profissionais que trabalham em unidades habitacionais apoiadas. O referencial teórico do estudo baseia-se no conceito Vygotskiano de déficit secundário e nos conceitos teórico-ativos de aprendizagem expansiva e agentes transformadores. A análise leva a um modelo inicial que descreve as etapas de aprendizagem coletiva e agentes entre atores institucionais e bairros. A análise mostra o papel educacional desempenhado por múltiplos atores e instituições no projeto finlandês para desabrigados a fim de promover novos modos de ação não apenas entre os clientes, mas também dentro da sociedade em geral. Esse papel é exercido por meio de negociações e acordos sistematicamente implementados, que estabelecem vias eficazes fora da marginalização e fora de orientações estigmáticas.

Palavras-chave: Estigma de falta de moradia; Déficit secundário; Aprendizado expansivo; Formação de agentes; Programa finlandês Housing First.

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2018-12-30

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Sannino, A. (2018). Counteracting the stigma of homelessness: The Finnish Housing First strategy as educational work. Educação, 41(3), 385–392. https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2018.3.32025

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Dossiê: A Defectologia de Vygotsky