Abstract

CORREA FILHO, ITAMAR DE OLIVEIRA; PAIXAO, JAIRO ANTôNIO DA  and  NOGUEIRA, MARLICE DE OLIVEIRA E. Origin, expansion and interiorization of Vocational and Technological Education in Brazil. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.74, pp.996-1022.  Epub Nov 19, 2022. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.22.074.ds01.

In recent years, professional and technological education has played an important role in social transformation and in building the citizenship of several Brazilian youth and adults. However, the Federal Institutes still assume for the capital the image of an educational institution whose purpose is to give priority to the training and certification of labor for the local labor market. Thus, in order to understand the paths and future perspectives of Vocational and Technological Education, it is essential to know and interpret its historicity and understand the social, economic and political conjuncture in which the Federal Network and the Federal Institutes were constituted. This search aims to carry out a retrospective on the advances and setbacks of professional and technological education in Brazil, considering the period between the Brazil Empire until the end of the government of President Michel Temer (2018), and through these data, to analyze the paths and future perspectives of vocational and technological education in the country. The significant transformations that marked professional and technological education in the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were highlighted. In conclusion, a considerable social and educational evolution was noted with the expansion and internalization processes of the Federal Network, in which the main objective was to reduce the educational gaps in the training processes of Brazilian youth and adults. However, it is still understandable the difficulties imposed by the current government and the capitalist system for the continuity of an audacious and necessary educational project for professional education in Brazil.

Keywords : Professional and technological education; Neoliberalism; Teaching duality; Federal Institutes.

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