Estratégias de sobrevivência de jovem estudantes e o programa agente jovem

Abstract

This work is a result of a research process with young students that belong to a popular class identified because of their economic conditions, customs and life style (Bourdieu, 1987). These students study at public schools and they are bound to the Agent Program localized in a Goiânia quarter Goiânia Viva -, whose goal is to develop educative activities that can be inserted in the actual organization logic of the society. It is extremely important to examine who are these students and what are their raised strategies when they lived youth time. The young Agent Program is sited at the public politics means, whose politics is turned to vulnerable youth and of risk. The research was achieved based on the follow: what are the youth and educative activities conceptions sustained by the young Agent Program? How the mentioned youths live their young time? What strategies they make in order to certify their survival on the urban social place? How they notice school, family, religion and the young Agent Program in which they are inserted? In the perspective of the purposed questions it is necessary to emphasize two movements of this research to display the study object. The first conceptions while an institutional space of public nature where the popular class youths transit. The second one focalizes its attention on the young way of being, on the several meanings that the youths have about their young time. This research aims to amplify the studies about youth and education in Brazil, and to supply subsidies for public politics turned to the youth.