Problematizações constituintes da juventude estudantil contemporânea

Abstract

In this article, from mapping of the academic production about the Brazilian student youth in contemporary published in national journals, we aim to understand the formation process of student youth through academic discourse. In this discourse, mostly related to public school students, we analyze the listed issues and questioning about the student youth, understanding, from the thinking of Michel Foucault, that the discursive practice constitutes the object of this own speech. The themes enunciated and problematized by the academic discourse in the constitution of the student youth as condition and place of subject, are: Youth, school and schooling; Youth, education and media; Youth, education and work; Youth and non-formal education; Youth, education and violence; Education and youth in conflict with the law; Youth, education and sexuality and Education and youth protagonism. Such themes, in the process of constitution referred to are placed in the academic discourse in a situation of complementarity and interdependence. According to the analyzed speeches, the student youth is constituted since a place of lessen subject at school, and in there, struggle for respect and autonomy as fellow students, for the recognition of their specific needs and demands in regard to school learning, as well as to the appreciation of youth culture and their young condition in that institution. For most young students, the school is set up as a place of tension and conflict. Therefore, the formation of student youth is marked by tension and conflicts, especially regarding the disciplining imposed by the school and the desired autonomy among students.