ABSTRACT
The article discusses the results of a research that, based on the Historical-Cultural Theory, investigated the constitution of motives for school activities in young students from Technical Education Integrated to High School (TEIHS). The investigative procedures were: document analysis, questionnaire and dialogue group with TEIHS students from a school in the São Paulo city. The analysis used the elaboration of a theoretical model. Different motives leading the students’ activities were identified, which are formal requirements, intimate personal relations, socially useful activity, vocational or career activity. It was explicit that the movements in their motivational hierarchy can be explained by the system of relationships established between the socially constituted demands for TEIHS - the general conditions of the school - the characteristics of educational task - and the young students’ social situation of development. Considerations are presented about the process of constituting motives for school activities and brief recommendations for the teaching organization process at TEIHS.
Keywords:
Motivation; Young Adults; Historical-Cultural Psychology
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