Juventude contemporânea e novas relações espaço/temporais: concepções dos estudantes do ensino médio sobre conhecimento e aprendizagem

Abstract

This research aims to analize the complexity of the contemporary youths in their new relationship with time and space, with knowledge and learning, under a perspective that stimulates reflections and seeks assumptions that promote the reinvention of pedagogical practices in the High School field. For this purpose, the theoretical background of this work presents a discussion about the Contemporaneity and its challenges, deepens the studies about the profile of the High School young people in Contemporaneity, discuss the concept of youth(s) based on the cultural pedagogies and the mediatization processes, besides questioning schooling processes which must be (re)designed in relation to their continuity, discontinuity and breakdowns. Some distinguished authors among the main studied authors in this research are: Bauman (2001), Harvey (1992), Castells (1999), Costa (2005), Fischer (2012), Masschlein e Maarten (2017), Dayrell (1996), Sousa (2014), Severo (2014), Pais (2006). This empirical study was produced based on two instruments of research, a questionnaire and a focus group, which provided a closer contact and listening with/to the youngsters in High School. The questionnaire was concentrated on three themes: the relationship and the perceptions of the students in High School about the school; how the High School youngster learns considering the current context – classes, methods and approaches; time management applied by the young people in High School and the relationship with the internet and the learning process. The focus group aimed to deepen aspects related to the three mentioned themes researched initially by means of the questionnaire, and was successfuly executed by the listening implemented during the meetings. Many analysis and views expressed by the youngsters unveil the complexity and the contradictions inherent to the school context and the society in general. The final considerations deal with the construction of guiding assumptions which enables the (re)invention of pedagogical practices in the High School of Colégio Medianeira, providing elements and referentials that might be unfolded during the school routine by the actions of the management team and the faculty. Therefore we noticed the necessity to expand the information for the professionals who work at the school about the context and the youths that come to us, facilitating the understanding of who they are, how they think, how they learn e what kind of life project and Education we can develop for them, and also, for us, educational professionals. The thesis itself, the mapping originated from the questionnaire – whose answers were deepened with the focus group – that gives us an overall view of the profile of a High School youngster from the Colégio Medianeira and the guiding assumptions built from this analysis, form the final product of the present work.