Education and work on the perception of students of the Agronomy course at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, campus São Miguel do Oeste:

approaches, diagnoses and challenges.

Abstract

This article presents a research that was carried out to identify the perception of students of the 8th period of the Agronomy course at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), campus São Miguel do Oeste, regarding education and work. The discussions are based mainly on the theoretical productions of leading authors on the theme “education and work”: Dermeval Saviani, on the issue of the educational principle of work, Ricardo Antunes, regarding the meanings given to work in the contemporary world, and Sérgio Lessa, on human achievements through work. Thus, the text includes considerations about contemporary challenges in the world of work, the impacts of education on the students' professional lives, and the analysis of reflections about the concepts of work as an educational principle. The students' perceptions were discussed based on two main categories: the profile of the students of that course and the relationship they establish between education and the world of work. The study shows elements that contribute to thinking educational praxis and its commitment to the qualification of workers, in the sense of the reflection presented on the concept of work as a political-educational principle in an emancipatory perspective of the human being.