Representações sociais de jovens da ilha de Cotijuba – Belém (PA) sobre o ensino médio e as relações com seus projetos de vida

Abstract

This study focuses on the Social Representations (SR) of young Cotijuba Island, Belém (PA) on the secondary education and the relationships of education with their life projects. The overall objective of this research was to analyze the social representations (SR) of young secondary education students in Cotijuba on the school and the relationships of education with their life projects. The specific objectives were: to characterize the sociocultural profile of the young subjects of the research; to identify the anchors and objectifications constitute the SR young people about the secondary education; to know the life projects of youth; to indicate the relationships between school and life projects of young people. The Theory of Social Representations underlies this study, whose testing procedures used from this theory were the objectification and anchoring to characterize the SR. The locus of research was the State School of Elementary and Secondary Education Prof. Marta da Conceição, located on the island of Cotijuba, Belém (PA). The subjects of this study were young students of 3rd year of secondary education of this school. Survey questionnaires were used to characterize the profile of the school and students. There was also a round of conversation with the study subjects. The discourse analysis allowed evaluating the content of the information generated from the questionnaires and the wheel of conversation to characterize the SR. The Social Representations of young islanders Cotijuba revealed that the secondary education represents an achievement for these students. On the other hand, the SR of young people indicate that the difficulties faced in the process of teaching and reduced articulation of curriculum within the context of living led to a dissociation between secondary education and life projects.