Estudiar para trabajar? Transición educativa-laboral de los egresados de la Educación Técnico Profesional en Chile

Palabras clave: curso de vida, estructura/agencia, estudiantes secundarios, transición educación-trabajo ABSTRACT This research analyzes the models of post-secondary education exit trajectories experienced by young people studying in the modality of professional technical education, and the place occupied by work experience once they have completed their secondary education. Based on the construction of clusters and the analysis of the experience of subjects gathered in semistructured interviews, the heterogeneous nature of the experience of the graduates of this training model was observed, as well as the instrumental role attributed to work in the process of educational-labor transition and, particularly, the weight acquired by personal experiences and decisions in the respective trajectories. Highlighting these processes and the associated subjectivities allows for a more complex analysis of issues such as the massification of higher education and the postponement of entry into the labor market experienced by new generations. Keywords: education-work transitions, high school students, life course, structure/agency El aumento sostenido de la matrícula de educación superior y la consolidación de un 'imaginario colectivo' que asocia el bienestar de futuro a la consecución de una carrera post-secundaria, es uno de los cambios significativos que ha experimentado la sociedad chilena.