VOCATIONAL APTITUDE FOR YOUNG UNEMPLOYED
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 44, Issue 7
Abstract
The aim of this study is presenting the structure and fundamental characteristics of a Mixed Experience Program Training and Employment whose overall objective was to introduce teenagers who live in rural areas by providing training activities necessary for this. This study provides an assessment of the impact and satisfaction of certain educational activities has had on the students participating in this program as protagonists of the teaching/ learning. Participants were 40 students, aged between 16 and 24 years old in rural areas of the province of Málaga, without previous employment and without qualification. The data show that the program has been a successful experience that has helped to facilitate labour insertion of participating pupils. The data show positive attitudes in students towards the use of new technologies like the Internet to facilitate their learning and that most of the activities they have been very satisfactory.
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Francisco Manuel Morales Rodríguez
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