Socio-spacial practices in schools in Rio Grande - RS

Occupation, youth protagonism and democratic participation

Abstract

The article is about of the political moment experienced between the months of May and June 2016 regarding the movement made by the high school students and which won the schools, the streets and the media of the time with the Occupation Movement nomenclature, in the space cut of the municipality of Rio Grande in the state of Rio Grande do Sul - RS. It is based on the socio-spatial practices that constituted it, making it possible to understand their social and personal processes. The qualitative research had as method for data generation the narrative interview with students who participated in the occupation process in ten schools in the city mentioned. These memories were analyzed from the procedure for data processing of the content analysis. The basis of analysis was organized with the concepts of place, territory, networks and political action to understand the processes developed in the schools during the movement and also in the period that followed it. As a result the research revealed that democratic learning was built from a process of youth protagonism as political action, with achievements in the political and personal that reconfigured the schools as territory and place at that time and space of occupations. As result the research revealed that democratic learning was built from a process of youth protagonism as political action, with political achievements and personal that reconfigured the schools as territory and place at that time and space of occupations.