Youth and adults’ construction workers: relations between education demands and work

Abstract

This article presents a study that analyzed the formation demands - for work and basic schooling - of the youth and adult workers that labor at the construction sector from the metropolitan region of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, considering their scholar and social profile. It is assumed that the enforcement of scholar education’s right is an essential factor also for the workers laws’ effectuation, as the schooling is fundamental for the comprehension of the norms and laws that guides the labor relationships, in addition to have influence for the reflexion about the concrete reality. The methodological category taken by the study is the historical materialism and an exploratory quantitative and qualitative research approach was chosen, taking bibliographic and documentary sources as research sources. The schooling profile points to the confirmation of the construction industry as a location of potential demands in You and Adults Education, while the social profile of workers raises the issue not only of scholar access, but also of permanence. Data on the supply of schooling in this scholar modality in the metropolitan region of Florianópolis also indicate a great disproportion between potential demand and supply of vacancies. In addition, the perceived lack of articulation between the vacancies offered in Youth and Adults Education and Professional Education arouses great concern, since the social and educational profile of workers points to the need for professional training in addition to raising schooling.