Educação e qualificação de jovens trabalhadores no brasil: o programa projovem trabalhador como modelo de escolarização

Abstract

In current contexture of neoliberal politics in Brazil, the phenomenon of unemployment of young workers is justified by low schooling and lack of professional qualification, problems that justify the adoption of short duration educational programs and projects, performed by public-private partnership and anchored in competency pedagogies and employability discourse. Due to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva election, the education aimed to working class started to receive a special attention enhanced by the building of new technical schools and in the offering of short duration qualification courses, exemplified by Projovem Trabalhador – Juventude Cidadã. Our analysis aim to identify the conceptions that guide the formation and professional qualification from the young students in the program, highlightening their limits and possibilities, mainly in aspects as the formation of critical agents and their insertion in the job market. This analysis, orients itself by the historic-dialect materialism and it’s a result of a qualitative research about this program in the state of Ceará. If in one hand, the program Projovem Trabalhador increases young workers schooling levels, by concluding the basic scholarship, in the other hand it masks the working class’s actual needs, once besides its assistentialism it does not offer effective access to an education full of quality, neither it guarantees young students insertion in the formal job market.