Integration pathways into the labour market, family and school: new scenarios and other dynamics

Integration pathways into the labour market, family and school: new scenarios and other dynamics

Portugal has gone through several changes over the last few decades, with Portuguese society having become characterised by a complex "unfinished modernity". The family and school have been two of those fields under transformation, in which the past and the present come together to form new modalities. Based on those two realities, the aim of this study is to characterise and explain the construction of integration pathways into the labour market (formal and informal) within a universe of young people, boys and girls, from different ethnic and social backgrounds, students of the 3rd basic and secondary education levels. Using an approach that is mainly qualitative, based on case studies involving interviews with young people (students from public schools that are part of the "Observatório Permanente de Escolas ICS") and their respective families, the end product involves the elaboration of a typology of the diversity of profiles encountered.

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Família
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Portugal has gone through several changes over the last few decades, with Portuguese society having become characterised by a complex "unfinished modernity". The family and school have been two of those fields under transformation, in which the past and the present come together to form new modalities. Based on those two realities, the aim of this study is to characterise and explain the construction of integration pathways into the labour market (formal and informal) within a universe of young people, boys and girls, from different ethnic and social backgrounds, students of the 3rd basic and secondary education levels. Using an approach that is mainly qualitative, based on case studies involving interviews with young people (students from public schools that are part of the "Observatório Permanente de Escolas ICS") and their respective families, the end product involves the elaboration of a typology of the diversity of profiles encountered.

Objectivos: 
Based on the characterisation of family dynamics and school pathways, this study intends to characterise and explain the construction of integration pathways into the labour market (formal and informal) within a universe of young people, boys and girls, from different ethnic and social backgrounds, students of the 3rd basic and secondary education levels  of Portuguese public schools. This study is based on a group of 6 schools in different geographic situations (rural, urban and suburban surroundings), diverse ethnic and social recruitments, different school projects - to enable the construction of a qualitative classification. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach, working within a diversified universe of actors and institutions, introducing to the analysis the viewpoint of the protagonists (young people and families), this study intends to contribute towards the advancement of scientific knowledge in the areas of family, school and work, within their multiple interdependencies.
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Start Date: 
01/11/2004
End Date: 
30/05/2007
Duração: 
30 meses
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