"Quem Sabe de Mim Sou Eu": cultural and communicative practices as pedagogical tools for vulnerable young people

Abstract

This article proposes a theoretical-methodological reflection based on the accumulated experience in the field of a university extension project that, during the last eight years, promotes activities aimed at young people in social vulnerability situations. By presenting the tools used and reflecting on the problems and challenges faced, we seek to develop a methodology that could be able to access these young people. Our goal is to explain how it is possible to use cultural practices and communication tools as a support for an emancipatory process of subjectivation, with the purpose of dismantling "self-fulfilling prophecies" common to the trajectories of these young people. Throughout our work, we have activated ways of bringing experience, memory, corporeity and speech as possibilities of expression of the unique subjectivities of these young people, who are still constantly traversed by structures, violence and hierarchy.