Abstract

SANTOS, Deribaldo  and  NOVAES, Henrique Tahan. School and professionalization: notes on the specialization of the working class. Acta Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.47, 66739.  Epub July 01, 2025. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v47i1.66739.

The debate seeks to clarify what is conceived by profession. The goal is to find better conditions to understand the process of vocational schooling offered to the working class. The focus is on clarifying elements that distinguish points of convergence and divergence between professionalization, specialization and schooling, among other terms that are confused in the curricula that educate workers. For the present article, it is key to note not only the semantic-terminological questions, but the ontological ones. In order to carry out this task, work is taken as the founding moment of human life in society, since, as Marx understands, the act of working is the element that sustains human social life. Hence, regarding the methodology, the arguments is grounded on an ontomaterialist perspective. Therefore, there will be adequate conditions to analyze the articulation of what is referred to as vocational schooling, on the one hand, with what is conceived as a profession on the other, which takes school as a mediator. The present article, of theoretical, bibliographical and documentary nature, aims, therefore, to analyze the role of vocational schooling in the education of the working class.

Keywords : vocational schooling; specialization; curriculum; education; worker education; profession.

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