Integrated Secondary Education and Youth: challenges and projects for the future

Abstract

The encounters between the Integrated Secondary Education and the projects for the future of former students of Paulo Petrola Professional Education State School challenge school education. While the pedagogical proposal of the investigated school is the curriculum integration expressed in the conception of human formation, able to educate the youth to be autonomous young citizens, the city offers winding paths and uncertain ways. By means of narrative interviews, we have identified that the innovative school curriculum has an affirmative repercussion on the trajectory of these young students. The entrance and the permanence of the youth in the secondary education are marked by the desire to enter higher education, come into the work market and, sometimes, to lose themselves in the vicissitudes of their lives.