Students' conceptions in relation to youth protagonist in the New High School

Abstract

This study presents Students` conceptions to youth protagonist from ten schools that were part of the pilot project in Rio Grande do Sul and has like problematic: What do students from Rio Grande do Sul say about youth protagonist after three years of experience in New High School project? This is a case study with ten pilot schools in Rio Grande do Sul, which had high school students as subjects. The research is characterized as basic, exploratory-descriptive and qualitative-quantitative. The collected information were collected through a questionnaire and focus groups. The theoretical approach adopted is pluralistic and discusses the conceptions of youth, levels of youth participation in school and the relationship between normative documents and school practices (COSTA E VIEIRA, 2006; DEMO; SILVA, 2020; WELLER; 2014; CORTI; 2019; MOLL; GARCIA, 2014) The results of the research indicate that, for the time being, in the schools surveyed, a pseudo-protagonist of youth is taking place, through managed and directed choices of training itineraries, which haven`t contemplated the multiplicity of interests of the students, thus disappointing them. However, there`s the identification of the selection process as a novelty that pleases them.