Ser joven, leer y escribir en la universidad

Abstract

Durante los meses de febrero y marzo de cada año, la noticia que ocupa los primeros puestos en el ranking de la agenda de los medios es la Universidad y los jóvenes estudiantes que eligieron su carrera universitaria y se enfrentan a los llamados, mediáticamente, temibles cursos de ingresos. Sus primeros días de inserción universitaria se ve signada por lo que dicen los medios, lo que escuchan de los adultos, lo que afirman los profesores… los chicos, con igual incertidumbre, se enfrentan a lo tan aterrador que todos presagian. Ahora bien, la pregunta es ¿cuáles son las prácticas de lectura y escritura que tienen los jóvenes al llegar a la Universidad? ¿Cómo son esos jóvenes? ¿Cómo se ven frente a ese aterrador escenario que les plantean los Estudios Superiores con respecto a leer y escribir? ¿Qué pasa con estos jóvenes en la zona de pasaje de la Escuela Secundaria a la Universidad y los ingresantes a esta última? ¿Cuál es su voz? Esta Tesis Doctoral indaga sobre la problemática, plantea disparadores para pensar en ella y en la articulación de ambos ámbitos educativos en las áreas de la lectura y la escritura. Y los protagonistas son ellos: los jóvenes.

Reading and writing represent the access to possibilities; is being part. It`s inclusion. In the discussions related to access and admission to the university, usually appear the different causal factors of the multiple problems that young students come to university: the more repeated, reading and writing. Thus, every start of the year, particularly a theme is repeated in the media communication, generating all kinds of opinions, ideas and judgments: the university entrance courses and headlines such as "Another bochazo in La Plata". In this way, the early days of university integration of young people who come to university is marked by what the media says, what they hear from adults, what teachers say, what institutions demand... students, all with equal uncertainty facing him so terrifying that all portend. To understand why these debates and who are the stakeholders involved, it is important to analyze and think the articulation of social practices and discourses given in the media system; how narratives presented based on certain objectives and what images are ranked and subjectivities are constructed from these narratives ways to play in the social framework. It is necessary to contextualize the social practices of reading and writing at a university, crossed by political and social vicissitudes of Argentina. From this, the important thing is to ask: what are the literacy practices of young people have to get to the University? How are these young people? How are facing this frightening scenario posed to them regarding the Higher Learning to read and write? What happens to these young people in the passage of the High School and the University entrants to the latter? Which is their voice? This Doctoral Thesis research about this problem and it raises triggers to think about the problem and both educational setting articulation in reading and writing areas. And they are the protagonists: the young people.