A Educação Profissional Técnica de Nível Médio Integrada ao Ensino Médio: implicações das mudanças legais no Governo Lula para o IFG

Abstract

This master's degree thesis in education entitled: "The Professional Technical Education of Medium Level integrated to medium teaching: implications of legal changes in Lula government to IFG" exposes the results of a research that has as objective to explicit public and institutional politics directed on implementation of Professional Technical Education of Medium Level integrated to medium teaching, its principles and theoretical concepts founding, as well as the development of these politics at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás IFG. A new legal planning regulates this modality of teaching, in Brazil, with the approval of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education - LDBEN in 9394/1996. It s analyzed, especially the period between 2004 and 2009, regarding to curricular organization and their possibilities to subsidize the construction of an educational project engaged to technological training citizen and emancipatory. It addresses the relations between the categories education, work, science, technology and culture in capitalist societies for the analysis of official documents of the IFG, the interviews, questionnaires, finally of data collected. I try to raise in relation to concepts of professional technical education of medium level, man and work, that guide the construction of curriculum project for this modality of teaching, on IFG (unit), the Technical Course of Buildings, class of 2007, and as the subjects in this process, understand the various elements are constituted of this modality of teaching. This is a qualitative investigation in the form of case study, where they are charged, too, document analysis, bibliographic and field that historicizes the problem discussed considering, especially the political, cultural and socioeconomic aspects involved in the process based on the thought of theorists who adopt a dialectical epistemology. As support to the data collection I realize application of semi-structured questionnaires and interviews with teachers, students, educators and managers. The first chapter develops an analysis of categories education, work, science, technology and culture from the texture existing between the historical and social relations, placing them in their entirety heterogeneous and its impact on professional qualification of men and women. In the second chapter, it is treated the Brazilian educational politic, from the approval of the new LDBEN in 9394/1996. It detains in the study of the National Curricular Guidelines for Professional Education of medium level in the period between 1997 and 2009. In the third and final chapter presents the research and their analysis. According to the theoretical studied and the data collected from talking of subjects participants in the research, a professional education emancipatory, transforming and citizen requires a curriculum developed in an integrated way, as an educational proposal opened and active, focused on the learner in its relation with the world of work and for work, which requires the generation of times and space teachers and students, to performance collective activities, the result of negotiation of personal elements to occurs the interdisciplinary process.