A formação profissional e o mundo do trabalho pela ótica de estudantes de cursos técnicos de nível médio

Abstract

  This text synthesizes part of a field research that addresses the motivations, perceptions and expectations of middle-level technical courses students inquired about the professional training process and the situation of the work world. First, the article contextualizes the policies directed to Professional Education, in order to understand how this teaching modality has been expanded since the early 21st century, and how transformations have taken place in the current scenario of the work world. Next, the research results are presented, with a view to characterizing the participating subjects and their considerations about the field of work and education analysis. The interpretation of students' speeches was insightful into how aspects of human subjectivity are dimensions developed through social relations and these material expressions represent the subjects' form of involvement with the world and how they project their future possibilities. At last, final considerations are made as a synthesis of the text.