Escolha profissional e escola pública: um olhar através da micropolítica cotidiana

Abstract

The issues relating to new outlines in the professional trajectories are only part of a larger set of realities in which young people in today's societies are immersed. The process experienced by students of Brazilian public schools during the period of professional choice has been little studied in the literature. The general objective of this study is to discuss the tensions involved in the process of professional choice of high school students in a public school, having as specific objectives: Analyzing the discursive production about professional choice; Discuss the influences of socioeconomic and family aspects and those related to young people's relationships with them for professional choices; Map institutional practices around the possibilities encouraged to students after the end of the school phase. The methodology that underlies this study is research-intervention. Through an extension course, linked to an umbrella research, in a collaborative way, it was proposed that the students of the second year of high school act as researchers, having the opportunity to research on topics that interested them in the context of the micropolitics of school rotine. Among the questions chosen, the field of professional choice was present, however the reports went beyond the choice itself, by profession A or B. The constructed data were related to the tension experienced by young people about the process of professional choice. Such tensions cover the field of young people's relationships with school rotine, with their socioeconomic and family conditions, and the relationship of these students with themselves.