Educação para o trabalho: a formação profissional de jovens pobres

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand how public policies of professional qualification and preparation for work allows insertion of poor youth to work and how they influence their trajectories of life. For this, it analyzes a municipal program of professional training for young people 14-17 years of the Juiz de Fora city within the Social Assistance which aims to prepare young people for the labor market through the learning model. The changes within the production from the 1990s generate significant changes in the workplace and in social life, generating increasing poverty and the reconfiguration of education for work, driven by the demands of capital. In this process, the poor young people become the target of anti-poverty policies and vocational training under the aegis of repression and control. The research seeks to understand how young people are prepared to work through this learning program, as they build their careers and their life projects from that insertion and the limits and possibilities that are within the parameters of their social class.