Orientação Profissional: uma proposta para estudantes de cursos técnicos integrados ao ensino médio

Abstract

The conclusion of High School is, for many young people, a moment marked by tensions generated by uncertainties and expectations regarding to the next stages of their professional lives. In this context, the High School graduates at the Federal Institutes of Education have, in the integrated technical course, a differential over other young people who experience the transition to the world of work. However, this specificity assumes different values depending on the way in which they configured their life trajectories, the personalities, the social contexts and so on. To fill certain gaps in preparing for the world of work, some educational institutions offer career guidance. However, a bibliographic survey about professional guidance in Brazil pointed out to an insufficiency of literature with a focus on resignifying values and expanding awareness about the world of work, and just as there are few references directed to integrated technical training. Thus, if there would be a way to offer professional guidance during a technical course integrated with High School that presented, in addition to working possibilities, social, historical, individual and collective conditions to structure the professional choices, letting the student more aware of their future decisions. Therefore, Vigotski’s theory on psychological development and a qualitative research methodology based on the observation of evidence that led to the development of a Professional Guidance Workshop in online format were adopted. Four modules were created to enable self-knowledge, the exploration of various configurations in the world of work and the meaning acquired by technical training within the personal interests of the participants. The analysis of the results focused on verifying the efficiency of each module in meeting to what claims the theory that has supported the research that it’s based on details and evidences of internalization proposed by the Microgenetic Analysis method. It has also used the observation of two word of clouds, elaborated on the beginning and at the end of the workshop, by the participants’s definition regarding to the world of work and professional future. The application of the workshop (educational product) took place between the months of October and November of the year 2020, the pandemic moment of COVID-19, with fifteen enrolled students from the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS), four of whom carried out more than ninety percent of the proposed activities. The results showed that the hypotheses of insecurities, fears and doubts raised in the exploratory phase were confirmed in the responses offered in the socio-cultural questionnaires. On the other hand, the last word clouds made by the graduates indicated that there was an internalization of concepts treated in the activities, as they refer to concepts and experiences that emerged during the activities. Therefore, it was show valid the proposed format for increasing the awareness of the participants about the world of work, because the analyzed data suggests that these young people have internalized good part of what they’ve experienced in the workshop. The career guidance workshop can be replicated with the necessary adaptations within each context, both in person and online. For this purpose, the script of activities resulting from this study can be used.