The school and youth cultures: from recognition to dialogue

Authors

  • Carlos Henrique dos Santos Martins Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
  • Paulo Cesar Rodrigues Carrano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/198464442910

Keywords:

Youth, Youth culture, Secondary Education.

Abstract

Many cultural events that happen in the city - with little visibility in the school - have young people as their main participants. Young people create their own spaces of socialization which become culturally expressive territories where different identities develop. Culture manifests itself as a privileged space of social practices, representations, symbols and rituals. The production of identities not only demarcates areas of social and collective practices but brings into play the common interests that gives meaning to ”being together” and being part of a group. Spaces of autonomy are outlined in juvenile cultural territories. These spaces conquered by young people allow them to turn those same environments redefining them from their own specific practices. The article presents and discusses contemporary social and cultural processes that produce the so-called youth culture and intends to draw attention to the necessary recognition of these processes by the school. Youth cultural groups are crucial for the socialization of high school students who, as well as being students, are also subjects in other cultural spaces and temp’s of the city.

Author Biographies

Carlos Henrique dos Santos Martins, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul

Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense(UFF). Pesquisador do Grupo de Pesquisa Observatório Jovem do Rio de Janeiro/UFF; Professor do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca – UnED Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Paulo Cesar Rodrigues Carrano

Doutor em Educação pela Universidade Federal Fluminense; Pós-doutor em Educação na Universidade de São Paulo; Pós-doutor em Sociologia pelo Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa; Professor da Faculdade e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da UFF; Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa Observatório Jovem do Rio de Janeiro/UFF; Bolsista produtividade do CNPq – nível 2. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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Published

2011-04-20

How to Cite

Martins, C. H. dos S., & Carrano, P. C. R. (2011). The school and youth cultures: from recognition to dialogue. Education, 36(1), 43–56. https://doi.org/10.5902/198464442910

Issue

educação, v. 36, n. 1, jan./abr. 2011

Section

Dossier: Juvenile Cultures and High School

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