Abstract

DIAS, Maria Sara de Lima  and  SOARES, Dulce Helena Penna. Youth, show your face: a study of the possibilities and limits of the vocacional choice. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2007, vol.27, n.2, pp.316-331. ISSN 1414-9893.

This work presents research which has the objective to analyze the psicossocial conditions involved in the choices of the young in their professional projects, based on the experience of one of the authors in the project Young, show your face!, developed in the Ilha do Mel island, Paraná. Social-historical Psychology and qualitative methodology were the base of the research, that included also the techniques of vocacional guidance. The analysis of the narratives produced from the groups highlighted aspects on the reality of the work and on the limits and possibilities of professional choices, what reflected the particular situation of these young people. The relevance of this story is centered in the fact that any project of intervention requires the knowledge of the social-cultural aspects and the proper dynamic of the community. The practice of the vocacional guidance may have contributed to mobilize the participation of the young in the project in its multiple dimensions, supplying subsidies for the involved institutions, in this as well as in other projects of this nature.

Keywords : Vocational guidance; Choice; Life choices; Cltural identity.

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