Isto não é um jovem! A disputa pela identidade juvenil no currículo do ensino médio brasileiro

Abstract

We often hear that young people are a risk group and need to be educated and controlled in its danger. We often hear that they are disinterest in going to school, and about the lack of belief in the school and their unwillingness to study. At the same time we also hear that the youth is the future of the nation. However what is the meaning of youth? By investigating the meanings of youth identity in schools we seek help in curriculum studies, to understand meanings associated to a group that is increasingly targeted of investment projects of models of society we want to be. Different concepts of society are propose to young people to be achieved mostly relating to school. Therefore, through a dialogue between the theory of discourse, which emphasizes post-Marxist and poststructuralist discussions, and the curriculum theory developed by Alice Lopes, we discuss how society can be conceptualized. Complementing that discussion, we analyze the National Curriculum Parameters, the National Education Plan and documents present on the website of the National Youth. We know that is always present a possibility of different meanings for youth and the meanings that are fixed are precarious, contingent and there is no determining mechanism which can regulates the hegemony of these and other significations. Therefore to discuss such attempts of fixing, in all its precariousness, are an attempt to deconstruct hegemonic identities and to understand significations as a construction