Abstract

ROCHA, Fúlvio Holanda  and  ATEM, Érica. Youth and technical education in IF-CE: contemporary dilemmas in the process of occupational choice. ETD [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.esp, pp.64-82. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v12i0.860.

This study evaluates career choice process of IF-CE students enrolled in technical courses. This issue appears as one of the new challenges of current institutional reality and arises from listening to young people and departments of the institution by the Educational Psychology Service. In student discourse, it was outlined the relations between the complaints, which was accompanied by psychological distress, and the necessary occupational choice at time of ingress. Taking the difficulties that results from schooling without individualizing them and conceiving the occupational choice as a process that happens in social interactions before, during and after the ingress to the course was possible to distinguish between three ways of understanding the IF-CE: as a "preparatory" school to the vestibular, as an educational space that brings in "addition" occupational training and as a mechanism to the first approximation with a career to be pursued after graduation. We verified the widespread perception that students were opting for a career and we pointed out the necessity to offer qualified institutional spaces for students to develop their career choices.

Keywords : Technical Education; Youth; Career Choice; School Psychology.

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