ENGAGEMENT, DELIBERATION AND INFORMATION:

HOW STUDENTS THINK ABOUT DEMOCRACY

Authors

  • Marina Valentim Brasil PUCRS
  • Isadora Bins Ely Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Su
  • Angelo Brandelli Costa Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

citizenship, civic engagement, youth, school, education

Abstract

This work sought to understand the way high school students from a public school in Porto Alegre (RS) understand the concept of democracy, based on the premise that this notion is necessary for an effective civic engagement and could also indicate  the role of education in public life that has taken place in our context. This is a qualitative and exploratory research, being part of a larger study. A school was contacted in May 2018, and 197 high school students participated in the survey. The results of the analysis of the students' answers to the question “What is democracy?” will be presented. As the method of analysis, the Thematic Analysis was used. Based on the responses of the participants, five thematic axes were generated, in which the ideas about democracy seem to show an important distance from the theme of democracy. It is argued that even with several mobilization resources guaranteed nowadays and pro-democracy postures being evident, the biggest barrier to an effective exercise of public life may still be the absence of opportunity to political instrumentalization, through more information and the defense of the democracy values . Therefore, we lack institutional guarantees in an aspect firmly evidenced as indispensable by the academic literature: the guarantee of being politically educated. It is argued that the most deficient aspect for active youth citizenship is the guarantee of formal spaces so that it can be built, and that this must occur within schools.

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Author Biographies

Marina Valentim Brasil, PUCRS

Psicóloga formada pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul ( PUC-RS). Psicóloga clínica sob abordagem teórica psicanalítica (IEPP/POA). Experiência com estudos de gênero, atuando na interlocução de problemáticas relacionadas a gênero e na teoria psicanalítica. Possui pesquisa relacionada a população jovem, educação política, engajamento cívico e fenômenos relacionados ao papel da educação no contexto brasileiro. É mestre em Psicologia ( PUCRS) e doutoranda em Psicologia Social . Seu foco atual de pesquisa está relacionado a construção de estereótipos sociais e preconceito intergrupal no contexto brasileiro. É integrante do grupo Preconceito, Vulnerabilidade e Processos Psicossociais ( PVPP),na condição de bolsista integral CAPES. É coordenadora do Núcleo de Gênero e Sexualidade no IEPP/POA. É diretora do departamento Científico do Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa em Psicoterapia (IEPP/POA).

Isadora Bins Ely, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Su

Psychology student at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, with international academic experience in Psyshology, Sociology, History and Musical Theatre, in Worthing College, England. Current research assistent in the research group Preconceito, Vulnerabilidades e Processos Psicossociais (PVPP) with a scientific initiation scholarship (FAPERGS).

Angelo Brandelli Costa, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Angelo Brandelli Costa is an associate professor of social psychology at the Graduate Program in Psychology, the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, and the Graduate Program in Medicine and Health Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He is the coordinator of the Research Group Prejudice, Vulnerability, and Psychosocial Processes (PVPP/PUCRS). Graduated in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), he is a specialist in Social and Health Psychology (CFP), Master in Social and Institutional Psychology (PPGPSI/UFRGS), Ph.D. in Psychology (PPGPSICO/UFRGS), and with a postdoctoral internship at PPGPSICO/UFRGS. Currently he also is an associate researcher at the Gender Identity Program at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA). Angelo already worked as a consultant for UNAIDS in the coordination of the Stigma Index Brazil research, for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO) with the Ministry of Health Interfederative Cooperation for HIV/AIDS in Rio Grande do Sul. He was also a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the HIV and Cities program, with the Municipal Health Department of Porto Alegre, and a UNESCO consultant in the Violence Prevention Program with the Rio Grande do Sul Health Department, coordinating the creation of the State level Policy of Health of the LGBT population. He is editor-in-chief of Trends in Psychology, associate editor of PLOS ONE and Frontiers in Psychology, and a member of the editorial board of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology & Sexuality, and Interamerican Journal of Psychology. He is coordinator of the Working Group of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPPEP) Intergroup Relations: Prejudice and Social Exclusion and a member of the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR). He is part of the election committee of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the International Affairs Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development (2019-2021), the International Committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2021-2024) and the SHAPES LGBTQI Thematic Health Systems Global (HSG) Cluster. Angelo also was a fellow member of the Regional Council of Psychology of Rio Grande do Sul (CRP / RS) (2017-2019). He acts as coordinator of projects financed by several Brazilian agencies and has already received several national and international recognition for his work, being the first Latin American researcher to receive the Rising Star from the Association of Psychological Science (APS). Researches in the areas of social psychology and health, with an emphasis on prejudice and social attitudes, sexuality, gender, and HIV/AIDS.

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Published

2023-08-03

How to Cite

Valentim Brasil, M., Bins Ely, I., & Brandelli Costa, A. (2023). ENGAGEMENT, DELIBERATION AND INFORMATION: : HOW STUDENTS THINK ABOUT DEMOCRACY. Educação Em Revista, 39(39). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/40763

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Vol. 39 (2023)

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