Juventude e ensino de História: desafios metodológicos

Abstract

The present text results from our research that had as main subjects students who are in the condition of adolescents/young
people and their relationship with historical knowledge. We present some considerations about these stages of life and how
they are generally conceived by society and academic research. We understand that they are polyphonic categories and, here,
we intend to express and explore this polyphony by problematizing them, presenting a discussion of their historical path in
Brazil and relating them to the studies carried out. We defend that thinking about these categories and the subjects that
compose them cannot happen as a block, devoid of peculiar characteristics. Thus, together with authors who study the theme,
we agree that addressing adolescences/youths in the plural is more appropriate because it is a phenomenon built on complex
social, economic, cultural, psychological and emotional bases, which directly impact the way these subjects experience life
historical learning.