THE FUNCTIONALITY OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION: A CONSTRUCTION DEPENDENT

• Autor(a) principal: Marcos Beloni , Belmiro
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Alves Costa , Pierre, Alexandre Mariano , Hélvio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Prática Docente
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.cfs.ifmt.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/rpd/article/view/636
• topic: Educação profissional; Universidade tecnológica; Políticas educacionais; Professional education; Technological university; Educational policies

The professional education in Brazil has historically been linked to the pragmatism in the formation allied to the desired insertion to the productive environment independently of the time. This article aims to discuss, starting from the bibliographical research, government policies for Higher Education, especially from the middle of the twentieth century and decisively at the beginning of the following century, with the alleged search for the university's approach to society in general, Similarly instrumentalizes the utilitarian character of the discourse-based knowledge of development. It also focuses on the current configuration of Vocational and Technological Education, involving the aspects that constituted this proposal, especially the interventions of international agencies having the MEC-USAID Agreement and the Atcon Report as a support providing the advance of the conservative modernization of educational institutions. The most recent face of this historical process is the proposal of the technological university, currently being implemented at UTFPR and in the Federal Institutes.