Economia dos Setores Populares: juventude e educação para o trabalho.

Abstract

This study it gives to life to youth, understanding this segment as social actors and, therefore, able to act in the space to transform it. I investigated its insertion and participation in the groups of production, associations, as element of construction in new ways of organization, based in the collective work, cooperated and in the self management. I looked for to reveal not only the perspectives of work and meanings attributed to this work for the young, but by means of its form of organization and production, I searched to identify elements produced in these experiences that contributed for a bigger social production – the knowledge and significant learning’s in fight of the popular layers, in a perspective of opposed-culture, Popular Education. The way covered for elaboration of this study is placed in the unit between dialogue, reflection and theoretical deepening, in a methodological perspective of insertion in the groups, participant observation, application of questionnaires, interviews and discussion groups and, still, the use of the photograph, music and video as elements boosters of expression of the subjectivity. This research way it’s based in a perspective theoretician-methodological of ethnographic type, that emphasizes the attempt of comprehension of the elements that they form the cultural and conceptual universe of the participants. The findings reveal that these groups, producers of against-culture, are placed in a platform of exploration and capitalist reproduction for the interaction with the market organized for this system, but at the same time collaborates in the production to knowledge that, allies to an organization and technician-scientific systematization, for the interaction theoretician-practical it can contribute in the sphere of the against-hegemony.