Jovens e o espaço escolar : ocupações, concepções e expectativas sobre a escola

Abstract

This paper is based on the assumption that there’s a divergence between the historicity of the school and its objectives and the contemporary youth and their requests. Therefore the objective of this research is to analyze the relation between the youth and the organization of the schooling space, more specifically, the following problematic was investigated: Which sense and perspectives, youngsters build over the schooling space? How is the schooling space configured and how it’s occupied/lived/transformed by youngsters? What expectations do youngsters evidence in relation to the transformation of the schooling space? How should the schooling space be organized according to young students’ point of view? The localization of the research is a public school which attends youngsters of Middle School and it’s located in a medium-sized city in the state of Minas Gerais. The methodological organization of the research combined four procedures to collection and analysis of data: i) the observation, the production of a notebook and field and the image registration (the production of photographic images) of the schooling space; ii) the analysis of text productions elaborated by young students of middle school, iii) the youngsters’ reports captured through interviews. We identified that the youth raised in the contemporary world produces conflicts with the modern schooling space and places the schooling education under suspicion. The organization of the schooling space is, in this context, put in check. As the school doesn’t meet the expectations of the youth universe, there’s a maladjustment between being young the role of a student. From the analysis of the schooling space we realize that the school doesn’t know the youngster that lies on the student, as if entering the gate this subject was able to abandon, for a few hours, one’s expectations, experiences, necessities, socio-cultural identity. However the youth lives and occupies the schooling space giving it meaning and diverse uses, letting their trademarks in the space organization, as in transgressions, escapes, indiscipline, type of sociability build, conflicts, scratches, bodies. Therefore they speak about impositions, strategies and resistance which imply the necessity of identifying, expressing, making the school a place of belonging.