Abstract

DETREGIACHI FILHO, Edson  and  DAL RI, Neusa Maria. Higher education technology courses: legal equality and school duality. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2014, vol.21, n.2, pp.145-160. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v21n2p145-160.

Since the 1990s, higher education technology courses in Brazil have greatly expanded the offer of courses and places. However, the high dropout rates presented in these courses led to a research in order to uncover the factors that lead students to dropout. Through literature review and desk research, this study makes a historical analysis of how professional education is conducted in Brazil. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the implementation of public policies for professional education exacerbates the school’s duality. However, such duality generates contradictions between subjective and objective issues produced by the ideology disseminated by public policies and government actions in relation to vocational education. These contradictions end up unveiling the social inferiority of vocational education and discourage students from remaining in the courses. The legal equality between educational levels seeks to mediate the emergence of these contradictions. However, despite legal equality, social equality is not achieved in the implementation of public policies, leading to a high dropout rate.

Keywords : Professional Education; Duality in School; Legal Equality.

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