"From so much to save in education we will be rich in ignorance": juvenile counter narratives in the movement of occupation of schools in Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The movement of occupation of Brazilian public schools by secondary students in the period of 2015-2016 was a phenomenon that showed the youthful role and marked the precariousness of basic education in the discussions of the public and media agenda. In addition to the occupation of the schools and the streets, the students used social networks like Facebook to express their opinions and demands. Starting from this scenario, our main objective is to investigate how the secondary students of Rio Grande do Sul mobilized and used online social networks to build a communication of resistance and self-representation. To do so, we will use a combination of methodological approaches such as exploratory research, semi-structured interviews and online-systematic observation of the Facebook pages of the schools occupied by the students. As a result, we can highlight the existence of a participatory and collaborative management, mobilization capacity, critical and political posture in relation to the hegemonic media, propositive in relation to public education, and the use of creative strategies and languages in self-communication and self-representation. This scenario refers to the communicative education character of the practices built in the student mobilization in favor of public education