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To find a job or a life? The challenges of transitioning to work and the pos-pandemic future expectations of young graduates
Publication . Sousa, Luis Nuno
The transition to work represents one of the most important challenges for the higher education young graduates. To find a job has effective implications in the process of entering adulthood and being able to do it during or after the period of the Covid-19 pandemic imply unprecedented challenges. In Portugal, obtaining a higher education continues to play a decisively role to reduce the country's structural geographic/social dichotomies and to represent the main instrument of social modernization and promotion of upward social mobility. However, and despite the evolution felt over the last decades in terms of the number of higher education students, of graduates and of higher education offer, the
scientific research continues to show that a direct relationship between family social contexts and academic/professional trajectories persists.
We intend to analyze the process of transition to work, the professional trajectories, the working conditions and the professional expectations of a non-representative sample of 195 higher education young graduates from three institutions located in the center of Portugal. The results show that having a higher education degree and a regular job did not change the process of transition to adulthood for most of the young graduates, and more than half of those, up to the age of 30, assumed that they continue to live with their parents and maintain the same job, located in their residence area. These conditions indirectly reflect precarious working conditions in terms of contract/remuneration
and, sometimes, an underrated job with vertical mismatch and low level of required skills. Age proves to be an important variable in this process, with the older graduates (+30) having better working conditions, supported in a professional career already established even before obtaining their degree.
Globally, the expectations of younger graduates regarding their professional future, are, despite all, positive, even though they are aware that this post-pandemic era will involve greater risks and difficulties in relation to the labor market, including: the increased unemployment, the temporary and precarious work, the decreased wages and economic growth, and the increased emigration.
Fanzine ESEV #01 Vol.1
Publication . Ribeiro, Marlene; Figueiredo, Sofia; Carneiro de Sousa, Catarina
Desenhar a excelência: a marca Celso de Lemos / Designing excellence: the Celso de Lemos brand
Publication . Ribeiro, Marlene; Providência , Francisco; Ribeiro, Marlene; Lígia Afreixo Silva
Drawing Across Disciplines: Teaching Strategies in Higher Education
Publication . Félix, Silvina; Martins, Olinda; Ribeiro, Marlene; Pixel International Conference
This paper reflects on the experience of teaching drawing at three public higher education institutions in Portugal, within bachelor’s degree programs in various scientific areas, including Communication Sciences and Technologies, Product Design, and Fine Arts, aiming to compare pedagogical approachesand the results achieved by students in various curricular units whose programmatic content includesbasic drawing concepts, product drawing with manual rendering, human figures, and animal drawing.
This study employed case analysis based on direct observation and the authors’ teaching and researchexperience. Drawing on three distinct case studies, the analysis led to the development of a proposedpedagogical framework designed to enhance drawing instruction across diverse educational contexts.With a background in Design, the authors argue that Drawing is a tool for creativity, enabling one tolearn to see, understand, and interpret forms, organise thoughts, explore possibilities, and visualisealternatives. This study had the ambition to contribute to: (1) finding strategies that encourage thepractice of drawing; (2) reducing the inhibition to draw, the penalisation of doing and redoing reduces
the motivation for experimentation and taking risks, which is fundamental for a project practice wheredrawing is a tool for idea generation; (3) raising students' awareness of the importance of drawing as atool for thinking, expression, and communication (4) promoting the acquisition of drawing skills and theirapplication in Communication Sciences and Technology, Design, and Fine Arts; (5) encouragingstudents to find their creative voice, message, and identity as individuals, designers, and artists tocommunicate it to others.
Drawing is a practice that requires time, patience, and concentration. In the end, this study highlightsthe need to find new teaching approaches that demonstrate to students the importance of drawing fortheir professional future and minimise the blockages and inhibitions that are increasingly appearing inthe teaching of Drawing.
Fanzine ESEV #01 Vol.2
Publication . Ribeiro, Marlene; Figueiredo, Sofia; Carneiro de Sousa, Catarina