The artisan subjectivity. Opportunities and limits in the training articulated by work in the compulsory secondary school

Abstract

This article proposes to revalue, from the results of a research work, some training devices for work that are implemented in technical secondary schools as formative proposals that affect those who pass through them, contributing not only disciplinary or technical knowledge, but also generating meaning to the general secondary school and the subjective construction. We selected two technical secondary schools, which educational offer can be qualified as alternative (that is, different from traditional technical schools). We analyzed the devices that explicitly trained for production in the world of work, its teachers, students and graduates. It was found that the subjective incidence they had on their graduates was an agency in their lives, and also proposed limits. We believe that in a context of questioning the educational system and the secondary school in particular, it can be a contribution to the debate to know, from research results, educational experiences that generate subjective impacts, and locate the relationship between secondary school and the world of work as a prominent aspect to be taken into account in compulsory general education.