Abstract:
This study is intended to serve as an instrument for questioning about the church
spaces used for juvenile socialization, aiming at promoting their protagonism, which
results in the empowerment of young people. This research made use of the Freire
dialogical process based on the educational practice developed within the youth
groups of the church. Bibliographical research was also carried out on authors who
work in this area granting a theoretical foundation for this work. In this exercise
readings have been listed of young protagonists involved in the life experience and
formative spheres with the intention of evaluating their space in the church,
identifying their needs and how much these needs are tended to through the
proposed work policies. It becomes evident that the young people are thirsting for a
space of responsibility and visibility, which permits an integration into the whole of the
church, passing from spectators to administrators of actions which results in the
creation of referential ties of trust. These initiatives signal foundations for a possible
ressignification of this traditional space of socialization.
