Lia Pappámikail

• PhD
• Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Santarém

Within an already completed project on vocational choices made by students entering secondary education in Portugal, a finding has deserved our particular attention: the renunciation of influence, that is, the belief that the choice made was free from any kind of influence, which emerged as a common value shared by all the young people surveyed. Ba...

In the bedroom: family negotiations and the construction of the self in contemporary adolescence(s) We live, as Elias brilliantly argued in 1987, in a society of individuals. The promise that everyone could be an individual, with a unique identity, object of duties and rights, was indeed one of the pillars of XVIII century modernity. However, this...

In contemporary societies, adolescents' individuation is largely staged within the educational system, and is defined by several schooling options. This is particularly true when young people reach upper secondary education, as this transition implies the definition of a personal project. In the Portuguese context, authenticity is linked to the ‘ob...

The obligation to go to school for an increasingly long period of time has turned schooling into a crucial dimension of biographical construction. In this respect the transition to secondary education is proving to be a particularly critical moment, given that the young person is asked to define a project (for the future) by choosing an educational...

Este artigo explora as transições para a vida adulta de jovens de várias regiões européias a partir de dados de uma pesquisa recente, baseada em um questionário. Para isso aplicaram-se análises tipológicas e fatoriais: das primeiras emergiram cinco grupos, tipificando distintas transições, orientações atitudinais e sociografias juvenis; das segunda...

This article explores the diversity of education to work transitions amongst some European young people. Following contextualisation of recent social change in issues relating to the family, individualized trajectories and transition regimes in Europe, youth transitions are discussed through the presentation of results of current qualitative resear...

El propósito de este artículo es ahondar en algunas cuestiones relacionadas con la juventud y las transiciones e identidades juveniles en Portugal a partir de la vertebración de dos niveles de análisis. En un primer momento se ha querido retratar el Portugal contemporáneo y los importantes cambios demográficos y normativos que en él se han producid...

This article seeks to give an account of the co-ordination between family relationships/cultures and transitions to adult life, simultaneously integrating this into the debate on the limits and boundaries of the individualization of youth trajectories. In effect, on the basis of the exploratory results of the Portuguese participation in a comparati...

This article seeks to give an account of the co-ordination between family relationships/cultures and transitions to adult life, simultaneously integrating this into the debate on the limits and boundaries of the individualization of youth trajectories. In effect, on the basis of the exploratory results of the Portuguese participation in a comparati...