OCCUPATIONS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN RS: POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION, REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The article has as central question to analyze how is constituted the perception of the role of the leaderships and representation by the high school students who carried out occupations in the state schools during the year of 2016 in Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Qualitative research was carried out in 2016 in two cities (Pelotas and Rio Grande) with a subsequent interview with an occupant informant at a school in the city of Porto Alegre in 2017. Ten research groups were used as discussion procedures and semi-structured questionnaire to sixty-five students between the ages of twelve and nineteen and a semi-structured interview with occupational informant in Porto Alegre. It was perceived two central visions about leadership, being the first of the group of those who do not recognize the existence of leadership and has a view considered negative about this category, relating it to formalism, authoritarianism and absence or distance, pointing to horizontal models as ideal model of organization. The second group identifies leaderships and understands them as those who perform most of the tasks and who are more immersed in the daily life of the occupations. What is common among the groups is that participation in terms of intensity and involvement with the agenda is considered legitimate.