FROM YOUNG TO YOUNG APPRENTICE:

REFLECTIONS ON THE SUBJECT'S SELF-FORMATION IN THE "JOVEM APRENDIZ" PROGRAM

Abstract

This work, with a qualitative foundation, aims to analyze the self-training of young workers attended at the Associação Ensino Social Profissionalizante (ESPRO), through the activities undertaken by the Programa Jovem Aprendiz. For That, the ways in which young people organize themselves around the notion of young apprentice were examined, as knowledge that does not exist in its natural form, but as a social and historical construction. Semi-structured interviews were carried out, addressing questions related to the singularities of the investigated field and of the researched individuals and analyzes of discursive practices in the search for unveiling of meanings constructed by the young people interviewed in the formation of themselves. In order to understand how subjects are constituted, Foucault's readings on subjectivity and technologies/practices of the self were used, arguing that the youth is formed as a thinking and acting subject through the modes of objectification and subjectivation around the concept of youth apprentice. The article contributes as an empirical basis for theoretical reflections, in which the importance of the subject as a fundamental element in the organizational issues involved in the constitution of the ethical subject is analyzed.