School attendance for high school students: review and perceptions as from youth cultures

Abstract

In this paper seeks to analyze the relationship between youth culture and school attendance. For such approaches to thematic youth culture, national curriculum guidelines for high school and pedagogical project of two schools of Santa Maria / RS. The general objective of the study is to understand the conceptions and intentions young students from high schools in Santa Maria, manifest in his speeches about the school institution. The research methodology focused on the perspective of the case study and data collection involved conducting interviews and creating and maintaining a profile on a social network called Facebook. The work started from the assumption that there is need for knowledge of the cultures and juvenile behavior, especially the conceptions that a group of young people have in relation to the school environment in which they participate, in order to promote greater involvement and mobilization for learning. After completion of the work can be concluded that the school offers distance social life of young people and unattractive compared to current technologies and that although the guidelines are based on full development of the students, sometimes students perceive the school away from their expectations.

Key-words: youth cultures, schooling, Facebook, curriculum guidelines, pedagogical.