JOVENS DO PROEJA DE URUTAÍ: MEDIAÇÕES ENTRE A ESCOLA E O MUNDO DO TRABALHO

Abstract

This work belongs to the line of research Education, Society and Culture of the Post-graduate studies in Education (PPGE) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (Goiás PUC). The purpose was to investigate who are the young students of the National Program for Integration of Professional Education with Basic Education in the Mode of Education, Youth and Adult - PROEJA - Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology Goiás (Goiás IF), the campus Urutaí integrated technical courses for Information Technology and Food in 2010. Also wanted to understand the meanings that these young people prepare for the way to be young, to work, to professional education integrated middle and the prospects for professionalization. In the process of investigation were used different procedures for data collection: document analysis, observation, questionnaires and mixed in-depth interview technique. The result of research brought important issues for reflection, some institutional in nature, related to the difficulties of incorporation of the IF PROEJA Goiano, such as lack of compliance professionals; certain ignorance of the proposal, lack of integration between courses, not effective training omnilateral students, few students, high dropout rate; dominant share of the youth segment in the courses. For young students, were found relating to schooling: longing of those in the program to continue to higher education, using PROEJA as a springboard for this type of education; bets on schooling as a mechanism for social mobility through the entrance to better jobs and focus on getting a job for higher pay, unclear definition in relation to project professionalism and future prospects; idealized conceptions front of the school and the world of work. Were also seized, in order to interpret the condition of youth, contradictions in the way young people see other young people nowadays, the stereotyped and stigmatized youth to express the universe; the perspective of youth as a state of mind, the lack of identification with the describe what kind of young. The research aimed to contribute both to the field of youth and work as well as professional education in the form of Youth and Adults.