Is everyone the same? Gender constructions under the eyes of youth

Abstract

The school can reveal, among other things, pedagogical and curricular situations and procedures related to the production of social differences and distinctions, which interfere in the formation and social production of the school performance. Youth and Adult Education is a public school education system in Brazil that provides opportunities for those who did not have access to school when they were still children, for whatever reason, to become literate, thus obtaining what is a right to citizenship. This article is the result of an investigation that aimed to analyze the constructions of gender in the youth from the perceptions of students of the modality of education Youth and Adult Education. Publications of the social network Facebook, with the theme “Gender”, were exposed to students between 15 and 29 years of a municipal school in the metropolitan region of Rio Grande do Sul. We carried out five focus groups in order to analyze the social constructions of gender from the young people’s perspective, from the thematic analysis method. The main results reveal how gender constructions present themselves in a plural form for young people in today’s society, even as they have different life experiences.