Education, pandemic and youth in Brazil

Abstract

The insertion and maintenance of young Brazilians in the world of work is a great challenge and the lack of access to quality education contributes to adversities for professional qualification and labor occupation, especially in protected, decent and formal working conditions. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified the impacts on the lives of young people with the withdrawal from face-to-face school activities, social isolation and limited access to technologies and the internet, which has made it difficult to enter the world of work and led to school dropout, unemployment and inclusion in precarious working relationships. The reflections carried out are based on the understanding of the historical process, crossed by contradictions, in which young people are inserted in the capitalist mode of production. The central objective of this study, supported by bibliographic and documentary research, is to contribute to the debate about the impacts experienced by Brazilian youth in relation to schooling and work in the post-pandemic context and the role of education policy as a democratic and transformative space.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/ptoketheeducati-053