Decision making as a moment of inclusion for students in internship

Abstract

The vocational training issue today is relevant in the social and political debate to improve the quality of the school system, and to the discussion about the professionalization of education pathways. The new reform law 107/15 art. 1 introduces and regulates the obligation of young apprenticeship program, to be carried out for all students in the last three years of secondary school. The law, which takes over the Legislative Decree 15/4/2005, n. 77 of the application 28/03/2003, n. 53 in which such innovations had been introduced, makes the process compulsory for every student of the secondary school in last three years. The paper presents an exploratory qualitative study design focusing on the perception that secondary school teachers have about vocational training in the student's school career. The research involved 616 students of secondary school in Palermo and Agrigento, in the scholastic year 2016/2017. The instrument used for the exploratory study have been: Polaceck ‘s Q.T.D. (2005) and a focus group. Qualitative data have been processed with NVivo which allowed to grasp the concepts, explore links, rework the ideas and easily manage large amounts of focus groups data collected.