title: Emancipatory action research with young schoolchildren: experience report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report an emancipatory action research experience and discuss its potentialities as a way to problematise the realities of the young participants. The aim of the action research was to create a drug awareness media programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  Experience report of emancipatory action research with 13 young students of a public school, in São Paulo, from February to September 2014. Research was conducted by means of 13 workshops in five stages: exploratory; topic outline; theoretical and practical orientation; expression of new knowledge; and preparation and validation of scripts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It became clear that problematization, which is inherent to the action research method, allowed the young students to seize the discussion process as a right to critically reflect on the relationship between capitalism and drug use.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The research enabled an emancipatory educational process and the construction of educational drug awareness media programmes, based on the way of life of young people who live in the outskirts of the city.
authors: Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors: Elda de
authors: Ed
authors: Oliveira
authors: Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors: Cassia Baldini
authors: CB
authors: Soares
authors: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors: Julia de Almeida
authors: Jde A
authors: Silva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006266:Health Education; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*