Abstract
The first decade of the 21st century is particularly important for Brazilian education because it records the growth of the government policies aimed at youth and adult workers. Specifically, after the creation of the National Youth Inclusion Program (2005), the relationship between government policies and professional education becomes part of the integrative promise of hegemonic education to reduce social inequalities. In this direction, Projovem Urbano establishes, in its pedagogical practices, the initial training in an arc of occupations so that workers can respond to the demands of productive restructuring, thus reducing the unemployment crisis. Therefore, the objective of the present study consisted in apprehending the concrete reality about the initial training for work, from a categorial frame, composed by some experiences of the Projovem Urbano program. The result of the research points in the direction that the guise of the initial training has served to mask the precariousness of the professional qualification for the simple work.
youth and adult education; Projovem Urbano; professional qualification; initial formation; educational policy