Abstract
This text comprises a theoretical essay - the result of review studies of literature on Full-time Education. With the focus of discussion centered on education as a right to social protection, it is our understanding that Comprehensive Education (offered in Brazil through the Department of Education’s PME Program - Mais Educação) serves as fundamental support in the defense of Education as a Human Rights issue. It covers the relationships between the Doctrine of Protection and Schooling, reflecting on how education and (social) protection can be conceived as a single practice. To conclude, the text points out that, in the specific case of the PME, protection means expansion of the space and time spent at school for the sake of social equality and increased availability of opportunities, especially those in the field of culture in the reinforcement of learning, while allowing access to levels of citizenship.
Human rights; Integral education; Doctrine of integral protection; Popular sectors