Jóvenes Pobres, Abandonados y en Peligro: Una Categoría de don Bosco Reinterpretada desde la Teoría Crítica

The author proposes to redefine the category "poor youth", typical of Don Bosco's educational option, in the light of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. The main implications of the proposed re-reading are the following: recovery of the memory of injustice, valuing the young person as a subject and denaturalization of youth poverty. The perspective assumed raises the need to develop a critical education as a liberating praxis for the young. The book contributes to the discursive enrichment of the lived pedagogical experience and provides conceptual resources for analysis and interpretation. At the same time, it opens questions that project the experience beyond itself, placing the pedagogical discussion in its place: in that of political economy. In this way, it contributes to resizing the biologicist frameworks of the dominant constructivism whose primacy obscures the social dimension and the ethical-political implications of youth education.