(Res)significação do papel do grêmio estudantil e a sua contribuição para o protagonismo juvenil no IFPI

Abstract

In Brazil, social movements have always played a central role in its constitution as a society, nation, people. The country's history, marked by antagonistic moments, crossed, sometimes by democracy, sometimes by dictatorship, demanded a mobilization of organized civil society, without which many of the civil and social rights that persist until today would not have been assured. Since Brazil Colony there are records of the contribution of student movements in this scenario, with emphasis on the emergence of the National Union of Students (NUS) in 1937, which was relevant in the process of redemocratization of Brazilian society. Youth protagonism can occur in formal and non-formal educational spheres, but it has a privileged locus in school. Certainly, the student union is a fundamental actor in the construction of a democratic society and a more welcoming school that is attentive to the demands of the target audience who, in professional and technological education, in short, are young people from the most popular social classes. The theoretical foundation was based on some concepts and authors such as: youths with Bourdieu (1983), Freire (1983) and Abramovay (2007); social movements with Gohn (2000, 2011); participation with Bordenave (1994), youth protagonism with Costa (2000, 2001), Siqueira (2021), Souza (2006); student union with Amaro and Quadros (2016) and Antunes (2016); theoretical foundations of Professional and Technological Education with Ramos (2014), Moura (2016), Pacheco (2010). Thus, the work developed under the Professional Master's Degree in Professional and Technological Education - ProfEPT, of an applied nature, of a qualitative nature, proposed to investigate how the student union can contribute to the youth protagonism of students in technical courses integrated to high school at the Institute Federal of Piauí. Thus, through documentary and bibliographic research, closed questionnaire and semi-structured interview, data were collected from students of technical education integrated to high school, campus managers and the Dean of Education. Using descriptive statistics and content analysis to interpret the data obtained. With that, it was intended to reflect if the guild has been constituted in a space of political and democratic participation of the students. It found that, despite all research subjects recognizing the relevance of their role and, despite legal norms and institutional documents ensuring its existence, the guild is not yet a reality within the scope of the institution. Thus, it is suggested that there is a need to rethink the school curriculum, insert the debate on the topic in a transversal and systematic way, provide continuing education for employees on the subject and define the fulfillment of this demand on campuses within the attributions of the positions, as these aspects, together, will have repercussions on Grêmio performance. The data collected allowed, as an educational product, the creation of didactic material written in a primer format on student union and youth protagonism to students of technical courses integrated to high school to multiply knowledge in a simple and accessible way to students on a common, technical and in non-formal teaching spaces. The work hoped to contribute as a subsidy to the existing gaps in the subject as well as in the problematic of study at the institutional level