Social movements and education. Experiences of young people in a high school for adults of “social management”

Abstract

In this article we present partial results of an investigation process, focused on political and socio-educational processes that unfold in everyday life of a youth and adults school, which was created by a political organization in a poor and social unequal context in Rosario city (Santa Fe, Argentina).Specifically, in this writing, we analyse the experiences of the youths that became part of the school, describing the senses they built in relation to scholarship in general, and to this school in particularly. We argue that, on the flow of school everyday experience, young students elaborate meaning constructions that tend to value school and their own bond with it, tensioning previous experiences defined by interruptions and school abandon. This investigation was carried out from a theoretical and methodological approach that aims to understand processes that develop in social everyday life, as well as practices, relations and meaning constructions that subjects perform (Achilli, 2005). Methodologically, we adopted an intensive strategy to gather information, which involved a long term, in depth, ethnographic field work.