Uma reflexão sobre juventude, escola e educação: relações, dilemas e tensões

Abstract

This paper aims to raise a discussion about the categories or elements applied to understand and analyze the interface between youth and school, as seen through the direct relationship with my daily actions as a basic education teacher. The purpose of this research is to support the construction of useful reference material for ongoing studies or others that may arise in the area and the study. This paper seeks to highlight the relationship with pertinent issues of social inequalities, education, teaching sociology, youth and school. Today's society is complex and dynamic, after all, social relations are reorganized rapidly at all times and in all areas of social life. In it, various relationships are stratified, often guided by institutions, groups and organizations; they constitute “signs” (forms of sociability) that condition social groups, especially the most historically disadvantaged ones, which, in the case of this research, will focus on youth. This is configured in the daily social inequalities that we encounter every day. According to Giddens (2002), modern society brings with it elements of pre-modern societies, however, transformed by unique variants of the present times: industrialization, globalization and technology. In view of this, it is, in any case, necessary to refer to the sociological conception of the same to understand or analyze such current society, the act of reflexivity. Finally, permeated by sociological categories, methods and concepts, it seeks to understand the relationship, tensions and dilemmas between young people and school, inside and outside its space, specifically with young people from the western coast of Ceará, from the city of Trairi, through two schools: Maria Celeste de Azevedo Porto (full-time) and Padre Rodolfo Ferreira da Cunha, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies.