Transição do Ensino Técnico para a formação superior: itinerários de estudantes da área de Enfermagem

Abstract

The present study deals with the transition from high school technical education to higher education with an approach to the itineraries of students from the Centro de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (CEPT) of the State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes). The aim of this research was to analyze the profile and motivations for entering higher education among students who had graduated from CEPT Unimontes. The research favored a qualitative approach and used as technical procedures the bibliographic study and application of electronic questionnaires to egresses of the graduating classes of 2020 and 2021 of the MedioTec and Pronatec technical nursing course of CEPT/Unimontes. The results reveal, among other issues, the following profile of the graduates: they are mostly black women, public school graduates, with an income of up to one minimum wage, and social program beneficiaries. They are graduates who are concerned with a quick insertion into the market and value the gratuity of the vocational course. The insertion in university education was not, at first, on the horizon for most of them, but is significant in the percentage of graduates who are still studying and who are heading for higher education, highlighting as motivation "the possibility of improvement in the chosen profession". It is believed that the data obtained can offer a contribution to the debate about the transition of graduates from technical education to higher education, and especially to CEPT-Unimontes