As representações sociais de estudantes e egressos do Curso Técnico em Agropecuária do Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas Gerais - Campus Barbacena sobre o mercado de trabalho agropecuário

Abstract

This study aims to analise the social representations of present and former students from the “Instituto Federal Sudeste de Minas Gerais, campus Barbacena”, as for the job market in the agricultural field, as well as to identify these students‟ main problems and potentialities alongside academic life and afterwards, when they are already inserted in the job market.It has been noticed, during the past years, a low percentual of young former students inserted in the job market, as opposed to a social, economic reality in which the school is inserted, which is, predominantly, familial agriculture. Departing from the theme “agricultural job market”, it was used, as the theoretical support of this study, Serge Moscovici‟s “Theory of Social Representation”. Data collecting was carried out by using questionnaires (structured and semi-structured), along with free evocation in a sample of 39% of students in the three grades of the agricultural technic course, and another 89% sample from former students (2009) of the same course, already inserted in the employment market. The research data were discussed according to the bibliography studied, and the study pointed out former students‟ social representations as concerns the agricultural job market. The results help to understand questions related to the reduced number of former students‟ insertion in the job market, mainly in familial agriculture, and it is an important tool in pedagogy restructuring and in the adequacy of the course to the rural, regional reality, which entitles it to public politics of support to rural youth.