Experiências de escolarização: sentidos e projetos de futuro de jovens /alunos do Instituto Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

This study has as central object the relation of young students to school and senses they attribute to school experiences and future projects. Professional education is a strategy of great prominence for the insertion of young students in the job market, thus, they have searched for educational alternatives, such as integrated technical courses. The objective of this study is to verify who the third year students of the integrated high school of IFAL are, how is school experience in this school phase, what are their expectations regarding education at IFAL, as well as their future plans. The study subjects were young/adult students aged between 18 and 20 years. In the first phase, individual questionnaires were applied to 73 students, and in the second phase an interview was performed with 17 subjects attending morning and afternoon classes in third year of chemistry and electronic at the Federal Institute of Technological Education of Alagoas-IFAL. As theoretical reference, we have contributions from Dayrell (2007), who adopts the notion of “youths” and young condition to highlight the heterogeneous ways of being young and the different social representations of youth in today ́s complex societies. Also, we searched in Dubet (1994, 2001) - with the experience theory-the explanation of action logics in the elaboration of identities and school experiences. And finally, Charlot (2002) with the relation to knowledge theory, that makes us reflect about school failure and how students attribute senses when learning at school. In our investigation, a quantitative-qualitative research was performed: questionnaire application, group interviews and field notes. We observed that the investigated school is an important instance of socialization, providing significant experiences of subjectivation to young students - in the same school, in different courses, we find different experiences- and strategies for knowledge transmission, preparation for the job marked, and insertion in the university.