A heterogeneidade criadora juvenil e a elaboração de sua condição cidadã com o suporte das ferramentas digitais

Abstract

This text, presented at the 15th National Meeting of Teaching Practices in Geography (ENPEG 2022), results from the research and analysis carried out during the doctorate of its author and addresses the heterogeneity that creates citizenship in the most recent youth political actions and mobilizations in Brazil, and that are supported by modern digital information and communication tools (ICTs). With the contribution of Historical-Cultural Theory and Critical Geography, as well as dialectical historical materialism pertinent both theoretical-methodological fields, this work is based on data obtained through semi-structured interviews (face-to-face and remote) and case study. Its purpose is to discuss, from a qualitative perspective, the mediations and educational processes carried out in the scope of the following mobilizations: the secondary school occupations that took place in Brazil in 2015 and 2016 - Grupo Ocupas, and in the youth actions organized by the youth of Heliópolis, in São Paulo, Observatório de Olho na Quebrada, especially in the activities they developed to mitigate the impacts caused by the social isolation imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The approaches and analyses carried out allowed the recognition of the widespread use of digital tools by youth and the close relationship between the use of these tools and the successes achieved by the actions. All the action strategies and future forms of organizing the struggles, in both groups of young people considered, were shared with their members very quickly and widely via chat apps. In addition, the ways of organizing and mobilizing presented by the activities performed by the youth studied pointed out important paths for future pedagogical practices, since they demonstrated the need to consider mediations carried out outside the school environment, in a non-formal way, for the process of developing concepts, not only that of citizenship, emphasized in this study, but, above all, for the development of human knowledge and for the necessary transformations of existing material conditions.