Work represents a condition of integration, selection, or exclusion of individuals in modern societies. Over the past few decades, we have seen a progressive erosion of the full-time employment model and the emergence of particular forms of employment. More than a process delimited by economic issues, access to work is fundamentally presented as a social process, inducer or reducer of life paths. The current ti...
The difficulties in finding regular and stable employment and the resulting social consequences have reached worrying dimensions in recent years. The growing demand for education and the hierarchy and regulation of employment continue to show increasingly obvious difficulties in absorbing a growing skilled workforce. In this context, the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic has brought new challenges worldwide: t...
Entrepreneurship education is commonly recognised as an imperative of higher education. It is seen as a transversal competence essential to be developed in all levels of education. It is a crucial competence to be integrated into the different subjects and scientific areas. Additionally, entrepreneurship is one of the possible ways of accessing the labour market, as can be seen in community directives and natio...
Esta análise decorre do projeto «Percursos formativos, transição para o trabalho e empreendedorismo: perspetivas sobre o Ensino Politécnico em Portugal» objetivo de analisar a transição para o trabalho dos alunos que frequentam o último ano das licenciaturas dos Institu-tos Politécnicos de Viseu (IPV), Leiria (IPL) e Guarda (IPG). Neste âmbito, numa primeira fase da investigação, em 2019 e 2020, foi aplicado um...
A sustentabilidade é um tema presente e tem sido uma das preocupações dos governos pelas alterações que o meio ambiente tem tido ao longo dos últimos anos. A atribuição de responsabilidades às atividades humanas pelas alterações ambientais é o ponto de partida para esta investigação. Assim, tendo em conta o aumento dos problemas ambientais nos últimos anos, este capítulo teve como principal objetivo analisar a ...
The creation of polytechnic education in Portugal is positioned to respond to the labour market expectations in terms of human resources. From a developmental perspective, it intends to reinforce equality in access to higher education, adapts the contents and practices to different population groups, and encourage continuous training and recurrent education. Entrepreneurship Education is today a polytechnic goa...
The increasing difficulty of young graduates in accessing to a job reflects the evolution and expansion of higher education and the changings of the labour market characteristics. Unemployment represents, itself, an economic and social problem, and one of the most pressing concerns of young people and families. Bearing in mind that work plays a central role in social integration, in construction of identity and...
Higher education in Portugal its characterized by the implementation, in the last two decades of the XX century, of a binary system: university and polytechnic studies. The establishment of polytechnic education allowed an effective democratization of the access to higher education. However, this process took time to be implemented and we still verify, today, persistent dichotomies with the university system. N...