Professional learning as a policy to fight social vulnerability: a study on the jovem candango program

Abstract

The study aimed to understand how professional learning contributes to the reduction of social vulnerability, based on the analysis of the Jovem Candango Program of the Distrito Federal, in light of the theoretical framework adopted and the legislation applicable to the topic, reports and other available documents relating to execution of said program. It demonstrates that social vulnerability is not an inherent condition of the individual, but arises from the social context in which they are inserted. It presents data that demonstrate the great asymmetry that exists in the living conditions of young people in the Federal District in terms of work, income and education, where the majority of young people (black and brown), 59.6% of this youth, are found, 75 .3%, in the socioeconomic stratum with the lowest average household income, R$ 1,870.50, and as part of the black population as a whole, they mostly reside in poorer administrative regions with high unemployment rates and low income, a scenario that double penalizes black women. Among other inequalities, the data also shows that it is in the socioeconomic strata with the lowest average household income that the highest percentages of young people who only work are concentrated, reaching 31.5%, as well as those who neither study nor work, 30.9%. It questions the selection process as it favors those who are regular in teaching, considering the factors of age and corresponding level of education, to the detriment of those who are “backward”, therefore, subject to a more vulnerable condition, but concludes that social vulnerability can be mitigated by professional learning in an objective manner and for a limited time of a maximum of 2 years with an increase in family income; and subjectively and for an indefinite period of time, as it provides the training, instrumentalization, and emancipation of the subject to act proactively in a society whose work relations are in permanent transformation.