Ensino médio e preparação da juventude para o mercado de trabalho: contradições (aspirações e expectativas profissionais de alunos concluintes do ensino médio da Rede Publica Estadual)

Abstract

This present research is an investigation about concluding students of a secondary school, by rapport of the legal orientations to this level of basic education, in the sense of a preparation for the work world. Because of this level of secondary brazilian school does not offer a professional qualification, this investigation aims to verify how these students takes advantages of the acquired knowledges, becaming its in easiness to the inserction in the work world, in the sense of surmont theirs disadvantages, considering their chances to satisfy their professional expectation, in the actual social-economic context, and knowing the evaluation that these students make of these possibilities. The main findings of this investigation show us a double movement: they refuse some subjects because do not consider its important to their lives and, at the same time, they appreciate these subjects recognizing its as a manner of satisfying their immediate needs. Although the oficial discourse postulates a teaching which guarantees the preparation to the work world inserction, youngsters do not feel prepared by the school for this purpose, because in face of the unemployment, they realize that this preparation is not enough and that another factors will be necessary for this aim. These contradictions, therefore, do not nullifies the school role. The relations built inside the school are indicators of the necessity to rethink its functions, mainly the secondary school, considering its own contradictions and its actors