PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: TRAINING AND INSERTION IN THE LABOR MARKET OF GRADUATES FROM MEDIUM LEVEL TECHNICAL COURSES IN MINAS GERAIS
Technical Vocational Education of Secondary Level, Labor Market; Technical graduation; Entry into the labor market.
This study aims to analyze the training of graduates of high school technical courses in Minas Gerais, as well as the insertion of these graduates in the job market. In this way, we sought to investigate training, through the analysis of the general guidelines of the high school technical training curricula and the National Catalog of Technical Courses (CNCT), and to identify the skills that must be acquired in the training necessary for the performance and for professional development in the Brazilian professions market. This dissertation is constituted by a general bibliographic review about the Technical Vocational Education of Secondary Level (EPTNM) and by a field research, which was carried out through a semi-structured electronic questionnaire, answered by 20 participants, and through an interview by video call, answered by eight participants. The time frame covered graduates whose year of training was between 2015 and 2019. For the treatment and interpretation of the data obtained, content analysis was used and a qualitative approach was used. It is justified that the need for a study such as this one arises from the demands of the job market today, thus, we sought to discuss issues related to the training and insertion in the job market of high school graduates, about possible means to improve the access of young people to the job market and also on a conception of emancipatory and critical professional training, which must be able to awaken, provoke and enable paths of insertion in the world of work and social insertion, in a broad sense, of such former mining technicians.