Where dreams are born of socially disadvantaged young people

Abstract

This paper was created based on data production with Brazilian and Colombian adolescent students, with the aim of proposing a typology of dreams. The construction of this typology was grounded in the analysis of confluences between dreams presented by students during interviews, their contexts, and theoretical discussion, and it is inspired by theoretical references from the field of critical education and philosophy and expands in other directions. It is also based on common characteristics present in the students' life history, as well as the characteristics of their dreams. In this typology, dreams are divided into dream as a necessity, dream as an opportunity, dream as alterity and dream as fruition. The text develops the argument that these types of dreams are one of the foundations of what is understood as motives for learning and that this can be an important reflection of understanding how dreams manifest themselves in the school environment and in mathematics classes. Discussions are also held regarding young people at a social disadvantage in the Latin American context and their role relegated to not being, in the traditionally white-Eurocentric philosophy.

Dreams; Typology of dreams; Foreground; Teenagers; Motives for learning