Entre consumidores e internautas: a outra face da crise do ensino médio no Brasil

Abstract

The current doctoral thesis, vinculated to the Research Line Práticas Escolares e Políticas Públicas of Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, discusses on the Brazilian high school crisis. Particularly, it has as aim to investigate theoretically how the consumption society and the internet culture collaborate to construct a new vector, in socio-cultural terms, to reflect on the ongoing decadency process of basic education final stage as teaching modality for youngsters and adolescents. For that, it is developed the thesis that juvenile condition, which today is inserted into high schools, brings together behavior and psychological dispositions that support students position of teachers knowledge rejection and of disinterest in learning. The internet and its devices, after had become popular last decade, with its virtual communication platforms, blogs, virtual communities, research engines and audiovisual files uploading, etc., became a new social support for the process of herself/himself construction, due to it, the juvenile subjectivity begins demonstrating new behavior features into the school environment, which did not exist before the spread of internet in the urban sceneries of the country. Besides it, in its turn, the contemporary school is inserted today in a form of social organization, named by Zygmunt Bauman as a consumers society, which, through several media resources, among them the own internet, establishes, together to adolescents and youngsters, discourses that legitimate a pleasure and entertainment morality as social signs representing a good life. However, the current educational diagnostics on the crisis in this teaching stage in Brazil, in political, pedagogical and socio-cultural terms, do not point out the consumption and internet cultures as key-components to comprehend the present dilemmas lived between students and teachers. In this way, the thesis proposes, from educational, philosophical, psychological and sociological theoretical perspectives, that the Brazilian high school is facing a new factor of socio-cultural order to broaden the set of elements that originates its crisis. The central idea is based on subjectivity creation potential from the devices of these two cultures, which, simultaneously, in the current socio-historical context, collaborate to the production of an urban juvenile condition, in front of which, the teachers efforts have been unsuccessful in their pedagogical proposals.