Youth, education and citizenship: the challenges of social and political participacion

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the relationship between youth, political participation and citizenship education. It is known that youth does not constitute a uniform block and needs to be understood in terms of its particularities. Today, youth constitutes a significant group capable of pressuring and influencing the political agenda. In this perspective, we discuss the following question: social and political mobilization of young people today have the potential to produce effective changes in structures socially formed? We focus our analysis on citizen participation carried out by youth from the popular and social movements experienced in Brazil from June 2013. To address this current sociopolitical context, we resumed some relevant aspects of the recent history of organizing youth groups linked to the Churches, Non-Governmental Organizations and social movements.