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SANTANA, Leonor M; CHAMON, Edna Maria Querido de Oliveira  y  CAMARINI, Gladis. SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF A LIFE PROJECT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2024, vol.14, e024038.  Epub 12-Jun-2024. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/re.v14i1.2604.

Throughout the trajectory of educational policies since the end of the 20th century, secondary education has been linked to issues that permeate both the preparatory training of young people and the direction of their lives after graduation. The National

Common Core Curriculum addresses an education based on ten general competences, the sixth of which is focused on Work and Life Project, which aims to value the diversity of knowledge and experiences in order to understand the world of work and make choices in relation to life project, in an autonomous, critical and responsible way. Considering this context and with the aim of analyzing the social representations of life projects by high school students in public schools, a descriptive and exploratory study was carried out with a qualitative and quantitative approach. A total of 641 students from schools located in two states in Brazil - São Paulo and Minas Gerais, participated of this study. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the free word association technique (FWAT) were used as data collection tools. The results obtained point to financial stability as a core element, to be achieved through a profession. Family, material goods, friends and leisure make up the peripheral system. This expresses an emphasis on material aspects and social ascension, and a strong approximation between education and the world of work, with no room for political, social or personal aspects.

Palabras clave : Social representations; High school; Life project..

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