Juventude, escolarização e projeto de vida: representações sociais dos jovens de Bragança/Amazônia Paraense

Abstract

This thesis is the result of a study on Youth and Schooling and had as the main goal to analyze the High Public School young people’s Social Representations from the city of Bragança-(PA) on their schooling and the implications in their life projects. This study was supported by the Theory of Social Representations (SRT) developed by the Romanian Serge Moscovici (1978) and consolidated by Denise Jodeled (2001), Nascimento (2002) and Celso Sá (2003), amongst others. The discussion on Youth, Schooling and Life Project was based on Nascimento (2014), Spósito and Carrano (2003), Dayrell (2016), Abramovay, Castro and Waiselfisz (2015). Based on the theoretical reference of the TRS, from the perspective of the procedural approach, the logic of the dimensions that make up the thematic network of this work was synthesized based on the following questions: Who says and from where it is said? What is said and with what effect? Four thematic analyzes were constructed from the images and meanings expressed in the subjects' speeches: the importance of the school; Difficulties faced by young people either to be or to remain in school; The school desired by the young; Plans for the future (Life projects). It is a qualitative study from the perspective of Ludke and André (1986), as the informative exploratory type in Leopardi (2002) and Lakatos and Markoni (2011). Three data collection techniques were used for the development of this research: the questionnaire, the focus group and the Free Word Association based on Gil (1999), Gondim (2003) and Nóbrega and Coutinho (2003). The subjects of the survey were 95 young people from the 3rd year of high school. The questionnaire and free association of words were applied to all young participants in the research, and the focus group was carried out with a group of 13 young people defined by application. Based on the goals of the research, the results pointed out that it is a group of subjects marked by characteristics of attachment to the world of work, to the condition of father, mother, riverine person, fisherman, digital native, therefore plural and heterogeneous subjects. These youngsters give the school needful purposes and meanings for the construction of their life projects insofar as it assumes it as a place from which their projections gain possibilities of concretization.