The school against globalized teenagers

Abstract

This text introduces a reflection on the place of school and teachers in the role of educating adolescents of the global-virtual era. As sustenance, we present some elements that relate the issues of adolescence and education revealed in a research intervention of psychoanalytic clinical orientation, carried out between the years 2013 and 2016 in Argentina and Colombia. On the course of this text, we present brief descriptions of urban tribes, globalization, neoliberalism and technological-cybernetic revolution. As subthemes, among other aspects, we discuss the forms of adolescent enjoyment; their socialization and identification; their power and mastery of technology and virtual communications; the way neoliberalism can affect them; their imaginary and symbols, and how, all of them, clash with traditional school frameworks. At the end of each subtopic, we propose questions for reflection. In the last part, we introduce, in a propositive way, the possible actions of teachers in perspective of their social and cultural prominence as educators. Among the conclusive elements found in this reflection, it is worth mentioning the particularity that adolescents present when they are internet-communicated, global and consumerist subjects from which school and teachers must, more than adapt to them find ways to captivate them to be able to guide them.