Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
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Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Enfermagem Geral e Especializada, São Paulo, Brasil.
This article results from a qualitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study based on a historical-dialectical approach. It aimed to understand aspects of the school trajectory and the perspectives of students and graduates regarding their expectations of high school technical training in health in the neoliberal scenario. Data was collected through four focus groups with students and graduates from four technical courses in the health area – clinical analysis, nursing, orthopedic immobilization, and radiology – from two public and two private technical schools in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Content analysis guided the data analysis. The school trajectory and expectations of students and graduates for technical training are in line with the problems faced by Brazilian youth and the ideals of neoliberal society, which prioritizes training for the working class in terms of employability, which rules out the possibility of dense training – which would allow for social insertion with criticality and better conditions for understanding the relationship etween health and society. However, it is in the midst of the contradictions of this society hat the school can contribute to overcoming class society in favor of the emancipation of the working class.
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