Problematizing Youth Transitions at the Completion of Secondary Education

Abstract

This essay discusses the youth transitions in times of incertitude. The crisis of meanings of some socializing institutions, being the school one of them, in their potential of guaranteeing to the youngest generations a transition towards adult life, questions educators and managers about the need to recognize the position of new generations in social transformations. We will bring into debate some of the results of a research carried out with young people living in rural regions, completing the secondary education, and some analytical categories that define the study field about youth, such as youth cultures and sociability. It is significant to recognize that the role of the school in the socio-cultural and professional insertion of the youth is still far from coming into reality