Medium school challenges: Hosting the right to participate

Abstract

While educational policies consider that secondary school should include institutional proposals that promote the right to student participation, ways of effectivising them do not always guarantee it. Individual and institutional, political and cultural resistance often leads to a declarative level. Promoting real participation spaces in the middle school implies hosting the adolescent questioning, as it involves the questioning of the adult logos, refutes the authority of the boss, or the owner of the house. The questioning position of the adolescent is parricide as it is inevitable on the way to an exogamic exit. The challenge for school will not only be to tolerate protests y questioning, but to host it in a framework that symbolically conveys it, allowing it to be linked to the exercise of certain rights of adolescents, such as the right to participation that is none other than the right to a word full of meaning