Protagonismo juvenil: construção e participação nos grêmios estudantis nas escolas públicas da CREDE 14, no Ceará

Abstract

This dissertation was developed in the scope of the Professional Master's in Management and Evaluation of Public Education (PPGP) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). In the development of the work, we aim to approach a Management Case that deals with the Student Union x School Management relationship, passing through the discussions about the active participation of young people in Public Schools of the Regional Coordination for the Development of Education 14 (CREDE 14). From the participatory ideology of the Youth Protagonism and the representative-participatory principles of Democratic Management, Student Unions are considered as organizations representing the interests of students and acquire importance in the school structure, making the investigation of the experience of young people in these bodies substantial. In this way, we seek to understand and analyze, through the bias of participative democracy, how the Student Unions of State Public Schools of CREDE 14 have been constituted and the difficulties experienced in the performance of this collegiate body in the school environment. First, we outline the panorama of Youth Protagonism incentive policy in public schools nationwide and within the state of Ceará, specifically in CREDE 14, reaching one of its developments, the Student Unions. Then, two different focus groups were carried out, one with school managers and another with students who make up the student unions, in order to analyze the performance of the Student Unions of the State Public Schools of CREDE 14. For this purpose, we take as theoretical reference Costa and Vieira (2006) and Souza (2006), to dealing with Youth Protagonism, and Dayrell (2007), Costa (2010), Lück (2009), Ferreira and Pereira (2017), Martins and Dayrell (2013), Machado and Goulard (2019), Pavão and Carbello (2013) and Costa and Vieira (2006), to talk about Youth, Participation, Democratic Management and Student Union. Finally, we outline an intervention proposal, through an Educational Action Plan (PAE), which aims to collaborate for the strengthening of Student Unions in CREDE 14 Public Schools.