A dimensão educacional no projeto Faixa Azul: a juventude em questão

Abstract

The aim of this research was to get to know the space dedicated to education in policies for youth, focusing mainly on the Blue Band (Faixa Azul) project in Barbacena in the State of Minas Gerais. This object of study was chosen because the project includes adolescents and youths in its scope. Using as a theoretical contribution the thoughts of Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci, we adopted conceptual tools to guide the line of research and the research method. We used concepts that were significant for the observation and subsequent analysis of the reality that was discovered. With the aim of delimiting the theoretical and conceptual structure and establishing links between theory and practice, we tried to find supplementary information which would enable us to reflect on education, work and social policies for adolescents and youths in Brazil. To achieve the aims proposed, as regards the construction of the data, we adopted, as a methodological resource, two questionnaires which were applied to two groups of subjects of the research: one of adolescents and one of youths. The data obtained was later analysed in the light of historical materialism since it provides an analysis of the social facts which bears in mind all the events. At the end of the study, the main conclusion arrived at was that policies for young people cannot do without an education, in all its possible dimensions. These policies need to be directed at the whole of the adolescents’ and youths’ world, including their school life, consistent with all their realities, since multifarious teenagers and youths co-exist in the country.