Nombre: CAMILO ARAÚJO MÁXIMO DE SOUZA
Fecha de publicación: 05/12/2025
Supervisor:
Nombre |
Papel |
|---|---|
| ANTONIO JORGE GONCALVES SOARES | Asesor |
Junta de examinadores:
| Nombre |
Papel |
|---|---|
| AMARILIO FERREIRA NETO | Examinador Interno |
| ANTONIO JORGE GONCALVES SOARES | Presidente |
| DIRCEU RIBEIRO NOGUEIRA DA GAMA | Examinador Externo |
| MARIANA ZUANETI MARTINS | Examinador Interno |
| SILVIO DE CASSIO COSTA TELLES | Examinador Externo |
Sumario: Dual careers have become a growing challenge in the educational environment, based on the specific demands of young people involved in this reality who seek to reconcile their student careers with work or any other type of professional training that is independent of school. In the basic school system, we have typical students, working students, and student athletes. However, depending on the type of student, we can say that they have very different demands. Each type of institution, in addition to school, imposes demands, values, and opportunities on young people that are reflected in the way their life plans are constructed. The objective of this research is to analyze and compare the schooling and life projects of young student soccer players, young working students, and typical young students. The specific objectives are: to compare routines and identify the main challenges faced by working students, student athletes, and typical students; to observe the processes of reconciliation and organization of time allocated to school and work activities. In the first phase of the research, 176 typical young students, working students, and student athletes responded to a survey. In the second phase of the study, 15 typical and atypical young students were interviewed using a semi-structured and open-ended script. The young participants in this study were members of the youth teams of two professional soccer clubs in Rio de Janeiro and two high schools linked to the Rio de Janeiro State Department of Education. The interviews were analyzed by mapping the recurring themes that emerged in the interviewees' statements. The results show that the central theme of the research is based on five interrelated pillars: professional identity and life plans, barriers to schooling, strategies for coping with the demands of dual careers, school environment, and family involvement. Analysis of each group showed that young student athletes prioritize sports training over academic training. Young working students in the formal labor market value their positions and aspire to remain and develop professionally in their field. Young students working in informal jobs seek alternatives to migrate in search of new job opportunities that offer better salaries and adequate structures to perform their duties. The schooling process experienced by typical and atypical young students differs. Typical young students devote themselves solely to academic training and therefore face less complex barriers, as they do not need to juggle two types of training. Young working students and student athletes who juggle work and sports training with academic training describe experiencing greater physical and emotional overload in managing their routines and responding to all the demands of the institutions. The basic education system in Brazil is structured around regular schools to serve typical young people, those who, in theory, are focused on completing their schooling. On the other hand, it offers few solutions to the problems faced by atypical young students who need to balance two careers, i.e., schooling with another type of parallel training. Finally, the unequal scenario requires that public policies developed by the State be specific and designed according to the demands of each group of students in school, building a viable environment for the integral development of young people involved in dual careers in Brazil.
Keywords: Typical Students; Atypical Students; Schooling; Dual Career; Soccer.
