This article discusses an experience with youngsters from a public school, developed as Activities Workshops. The experience included actions resulting from university extension activities, characterized by interventions that seek to exercise participative methodologies, based on the defense of the rights which compose citizenship. With the support of the theoretical and methodological presuppositions of social occupational therapy and education for freedom advocated by Paulo Freire, the Activities Workshops have been constituted as a social technology for approaching students, (re)building projects and enlarging support networks conducted with youngsters who come from urban popular groups and are in situations of social vulnerability. The sum of these experiences has provided us with subsides related to the discussion about the implementation of these devices into the schools' curriculum, in order to establish educational proposals founded on democratic bases that support a tensioning movement of the current situation, contributing to face contemporary social issues.
Youth; Citizenship and rights; Education; Occupational Therapy; Social technologies
