The legal-institutional foundations that organize the policy —acknowledged here as regulated practices through which the subjects participate in the direction and government of the society in which they are members— exclude children and adolescents based on their minority. From the reconstruction of the work in two differentiated contexts —the Program the legislature and the school of the Legislative Power of the Independent City of Buenos Aires and student centers of middle class schools— problematic aspects regarding the contents and methods of the participation of the young people in the public space are analyzed. The practices documented by our investigation make known the tension analyzed in a contemporary literature aspect to the sense given to the policy and what can be understood like as the politician, whose light focuses on the concern and debates that circulate amongst youth. The reflection deepens on the direction of the construction of the communal property which are formulated, and the forms of the participation politics which are conceive as legitimate, jeopardizing in the analysis the effects that these could imply for a possible democratization of the school.
Keywords:
childhood, youth, citizenship, democracy, public space
Batallán, G., Campanini, S., Prudan, E., Enrique, I., & Castro, S. (2020). THE The political participation of adolescents in an argentinian urban context. Points for debate. Última Década, 17(30), 41–66. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/56038
