Escolhas profissionais de adolescentes em carreiras técnicas no Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Pará

Abstract

In view of the importance of the professional choices’ meaning on the professional identity’s formation and of a productive adult life, this study intends to know how the teenagers pupils of CEFET-PA make their choices about tecnic careers and how the institution take part in those process of choice. It is a qualitative study, where the ideas of autonomy are included being used as a theoretic-methodological reference from Seve’s (1989) elaborations about human subjectivity and understandings of Ferretti (1988) about choices procedures. The information were collected from interviews with a half structured program and applied to six pupils of tecnic courses at the same time. The treatment of that information was maddening using analysis of containing. The result was the identifications of three categories raised from their discussion: things that determine their choices, work and school. Trough it all the way of choice of that pupils were reconstructed denoting their historic and social dimension and revealing understandings of the institutional function about those trajectories.