Projetos de vida e escola: a percepção de estudantes do ensino médio sobre a contribuição das experiências escolares aos seus projetos de vida / Life projects and school: the perception of high school students about the contribution that school experiences can bring to their life projects.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

15/04/2011

RESUMO

The present study investigates the perception of high school students about the contribution that school experiences can bring to their life projects. Damon\ s formulation of the concept of purposes was taken for reference, adopting the perspective of positive psychology (Seligman &Csikszentmihalyi). The assumption adopted was that projects that guide people\ s lives are central to humanity and can contribute to both personal satisfaction and for collective purposes. It is believed that youth is a time relevant to the identification of such projects, given the need for the teenager in designing their future, choosing ways to be followed into adulthood. The complexity of this phase of life was sought understood in the view of some authors related to psychology (Inhelder &Piaget, Erikson, Damon) and sociology (Mannheim, Eisenstadt). Given the formative role of the school, the diversity of experience that delivers on students and to the time they spend in it, the identification of potentially life projects becomes favorable in this institution. The concept of school experiences have the basis on Dewey\ s work. A positive approach to the subject was choosen, ie, the elements that contribute in developing life projects will be consider. The research plan provides data from a survey with 305 students from first and second years of high school from public and private schools in São Paulo. The research, in order to seek the subjects\ perception, not only adopts a qualitative approach to the problem, but also makes use of quantitative procedures to achieve your goals. The concept of purposes involves an investigation of different elements such as goals and life goals, actions, perceptions of the meaning of life and concern with the future. For that, was used an instrument elaborated on a Likert scale with closed questions and open questions for identify the contribution of school in life projects from the perspective of those involved. Data analysis indicates that most of the youth have economic or hedonistic life projects that combine values with family life goals, pro-social, religious, among others. The data shows that almost all the youth do not consider the relevance of political objectives in their lives. School is perceived positively, 81% of (the) participants consider that it contributes for their life projects, mainly through the curriculum subjects that have their meaning associated with the future, training for work and college. Data related with student representation and youth protagonism data reveal very low percentage in the living this kind of experience. Among the reasons attributed to the contributions of school experiences were detected meanings wich are self-centered, incorporate the one by interpersonal relations and consider interests and collective causes. The data show that values, life goals and meanings attributed to school are combined in various ways, highlighting the complexity that involves adopting a life project.

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adolescência e juventude experiências escolares significativas life projects meaningful school experiences projetos de vida projetos vitais purpose valores values youth and adolescence

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