A vida numa encruzilhada: jovens do ensino médio entre o desejo e a necessidade de projetar o futuro

Abstract

This article chooses as an analysis scenario the implementation of a project of curricular reorganization in secondary education in the state public network of Minas Gerais that demands from the young people for whom this policy is addressed a reconfiguration of plans and a new calculation to prospect the future, anchored between desire and need. In the analysis, it becomes evident how much secondary education aimed at less favored groups has been instrumentalized, from a semantics anchored in the idea of “modernization” and “efficiency” of the school, application of economic logic to pedagogy, suggesting the transfer of market reason for the school. The methodology undertaken combined quali-quanti approaches, present both in the applied questionnaires and in the realization of focus groups with young people. To analyze this factual reality, we used a theoretical framework that has focused on the tensions of young people and the world of work.