Juventude na contemporaneidade: leituras de desenhos de futuro

Abstract

The present research problematizes meanings of youth, present/future and social challenges directed to the young student, analyzing future drawings of the young students of the third stage of public high school in three different schools of Goiânia, Goiás, based on theoretical notions and methodologies by Jacques Derrida, as well as propositions by authors who dialogue with poststructuralist proposals, such as Leonor Arfuch. Empiricism exposed a less recognized side of the deconstruction, which is the recognition of the strength of meaning sedimentation, locating a single format of future design for these young people, regarding their professional qualification. Questioning, in fourteen conversations held in 2017 and 2018, how social challenges appear in narratives of young people from regular high school about their future, school and family are presented as institutions that guide future designs to enter higher education. It is identified that the school, as a daily challenge in the lives of these young people, presents higher education as a compulsory path, although it does not offer sufficient educational conditions for the entrance of these young people in public universities, causing future plans made impossible by the very precariousness of the academic formation that is offered to this people. This conclusion also opened the way to reflect on the future of poor young people in Brazil, on the meaning of high school today, and on the reform imposed at this level from law no. 13.415/2017