Meu olhar de encontro ao teu: a escola na ótica dos jovens-estudantes do Colégio Estadual Yeda Barradas Carneiro - Conceição da Feira/Bahia

Abstract

The present study aims to understand and reflect on the meanings assigned by young students to school in their schooling process, as well as the relationships they establish between the school and themselves, showing the reasons that mobilize them to attend it And their wants and needs in relation to high school. This proposal comes mainly from the particular interest as a teacher of young people, between 15 and 21 years old, students of the 1st and 3rd grades of High School, beings in development, who produce meanings of their experiences in social relations, in the only school of Conceição da Feira to offer this modality of education, and, based on readings of texts about the relation between Youth(s) and School. For the construction of this investigative work, a dialogue between the theoretical and methodological approaches of the Net of Meanings (RedSig) and of Cartography was woven in the methodological design of qualitative research, believing that they would provide the necessary support to carry out this course. The data were produced procedurally, considering the context and the interactions. In order to gather different perspectives that could be used to compose a meaning map, they were used as a strategy: the direct observation of the context with records in field diaries, the application of a sociocultural questionnaire in order to know the sixteen young people who collaborated with this work, informal talks and dialogue groups. The path taken between reflection, practice and the search for the meanings attributed by young students to school in their schooling process is outlined in this work by discussing issues related to youth, school, and schooling and the “crisis” of high school, and it contributes to the opening of the dialogue between ideas and theoretical assumptions and the uncovered scenes. Reaching the final itinerary, it was noticed that the meanings attributed by the young students to the school are related to the way he/she sees him/herself on the process of schooling: motivations, established bonds, expectations and frustrations. In this perspective, the meanings were identified and debated from emerging themes in the narratives of the young students who participated in this research. For this reason, the meanings of the school, the relationships of sociability and the projects of life earn a special contour in the data analysis chapter.