Pol?ticas p?blicas de qualifica??o profissional: a experi?ncia do ProJovem em Mesquita-RJ

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Paula de Macedo
• Orientador(a): Ramos, Lilian Maria Paes de Carvalho
• Banca de defesa: Ramos, Lilian Maria Paes de Carvalho, Paula, Luc?lia Augusta Lino de, Souza, Jos? dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Contextos Contempor?neos e Demandas Populares
• Departamento: Instituto Multidisciplinar de Nova Igua?u; Instituto de Educa??o; Pr?-Reitoria de Pesquisa e P?s-Gradua??o
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: pol?ticas educacionais; juventude; educa??o profissional; trabalho docente
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: educational policy; youth and professional education; teacher practice
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Educa??o
• Link de acesso: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/2279

This paper assumes that unemployment of youth is one of the challenges of the globalized societies with its scarce and specialized jobs. In Brazil, as in other countries, youth becomes the group most affected by unemployment and pushed to the margins of society. In the past, authorities adopted policies to control and repress young people through premature integration into the labor market. Since 1990, international organizations supported vocational training activities in several countries. In an attempt to remedy this situation, compensatory social and educational policies were created in Brazil, functioning as mechanisms for the perpetuation of social and educational inequalities, and favoring the maintenance of the capitalist interests of the hegemonic classes. Critical thinkers suggest that improving the skills of young people is no guarantee of employment, because there is insufficient jobs creation for the general population. Based on this reality, the object of this study are the educational policies of vocational training for yoth initiated in the Lula government (2003-10), followed by Dilma?s first government (2011-14). We aimed at the policies to qualify young people for the labor market through programs such as Projovem, whose goal is the qualification of youth living in areas devoid of basic social services. According to the government discourse, the job opportunities exist but lack qualified professionals to take them, attracting young people to participate in programs such as ProJovem. However, due to its precarious nature, these do not guarantee a reduction in youth unemployment. In view of such reality, we propose a review of public policy goals regarding professional qualification and care given to youth issues by Brazilian government authorities, using the experience of ProJovem in Mesquita, RJ. Our main sources were bibliographical material and analysis of primary and secondary sources relating to youth, public policies and vocational education programs. We conclude that the main objective of these programs is not to prepare youth for the labor market, but to contain a possible threat that poor and idle youth may become to society, because such programs are developed in peripheral and poor regions. During our survey in search for the actual situation of the program, we interviewed ProJovem students and teachers about their hopes and difficulties. In doing so we sought to raise the main problems related to the Program in the voice of its members, and they confirmed our initial suspicions. We hope this work will contribute to the construction of new public policies that truly meet the needs of young people of the lower classes.