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The school “bubble”: aspirations, obstacles, and goal adjustments in working young graduates from vocational-technical schools.

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Vol. 33 No. 64 (2025): Mayo
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78763

Abstract

This research work analyzed how eight graduates from Chilean vocational-technical schools have adjusted their academic, work, and social goals when they deal with obstacles related to their education aspirations. By means of interviews, aspirations of pursuing higher education studies to “live well” through their qualifications were identified, facing obstacles such as lack of information, entrance exam preparation, financial difficulties, and precarization of work, among others, and adjusting their goals according to their initial circumstances and interests in the process. The results reveal a society segmented into social classes and types of education whose youth aspirations, obstacles, and adjustments are determined within a “school bubble” framework, which impacts on their entrance into the “adult world,” acknowledging limits on social mobility and reproducing the social structure.

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YOUTHS, SCHOOL BUBBLE, ASPIRATIONS, OBSTACLES, GOAL ADJUSTMENTS, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION.

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Patricio Ibáñez González, Investigador Núcleo de Investigación y Acción en Juventudes, Universidad de Chile

Magíster en Ciencias Sociales, mención en Sociología de la Modernización, Universidad de Chile. Licenciado y Trabajador Social, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. Encargado Académico Programa Propedéutico y Profesional PACE, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. Investigador Núcleo de Investigación y Acción en Juventudes, Universidad de Chile. Correo electrónico: patricio.ibanez@utem.cl

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Ibáñez González, P. (2025). The school “bubble”: aspirations, obstacles, and goal adjustments in working young graduates from vocational-technical schools. Última Década, 33(64), 10–36. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78763
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