“Ninguém saiu daqui sem uma experiência única”: as ocupações secundaristas de 2016 e o caso do Ginásio Pernambucano

Abstract

This research aims to comprehend the school occupations occurred in 2016 against Temer government and its austerity politics that affected several sectors, including education, from the perspective of the students at Reference High-school Ginásio Pernambucano, located in Recife. The research attended the development of the students’ mobilizations to carry out the occupation until the period after the evacuation, highlighting the occupations consequences to the school routine as well the political formation impact to the young people involved in these acts. Based on semi-structured interviews applied to students and people unrelated to the school that participated in the occupations, it was created a chronology's occupation focused on the guidelines raised by the movement at the beginning and on guidelines that were incorporated throughout the occupation. This work also discusses how the relationship between students, teachers and managers took place, along with how the students have structured the occupation, the instances of decision on the organization of activities and actions. Finally, we understand that occupations go beyond the schedule of political combat and create a new perspective of school with student self-management, where there is intense learning about citizenship, political participation and an inclusive perspective of school management, showing how this experience of students was full of contradictions and learning in an intense 33 days as occupants and administrators of the school.