RELAÇÃO ENTRE EDUCAÇÃO E TRABALHO NO CURSO TÉCNICO EM AGROPECUÁRIA INTEGRADO AO ENSINO MÉDIO.

Abstract

The contemporary social context has sparked an education that enables students, albeit general, access to knowledge focused on the world of work, with the aim of establishing links between productive and educational processes. Thus, the transformation of socioeconomic order, lived in the framework of capitalist society of neoliberal strain, require that education incorporates, increasingly, new ways of approaching instruction developed in the school environment. What is sought is to expand and diversify the provision of education, enabling professional training in tune with the surrounding socioeconomic reality, that stands for polyvalent workers, exploited to fit the flexible production process. At this conjuncture, this study aims to understand how the relationship between education and work in the Technical Course in Agriculture integrated at the high school is understood and worked by teachers. The research is guided on the socio-historical approach, sedimented in referential of dialectical historical materialism, from the perspective of understanding how the relationship between education and work is expressed and experienced in the Federal Institute Goiano - campus Morrinhos, especially in the referenced course, and the various spaces that compose the institution, among which prioritized the secretarial of school records, library and teacher rooms. The data collection technique consisted of systematic observations, guided by script, and recorded in a field diary; semistructured interviews with teachers; and consults in the school documents and educational legislation. The use of these methodological procedures has focused on the discussion of situations and revealing manifestations of the relationship between education and work in the researched course, expressed through physical, institutional and educational organization of the educational institution, the profile of the students who completed the study course in the period of 2008-2014, printed materials used, teachers who work in this course, and school documents and educational legislation. In effecting of this study, it was discussed about education, school, work, man, integrated high school, work and education organization, society, function of education and integral formation. To this end, had to support in theoretical as Manacorda (2010), Enguita (1989, 1993), Marx (1977), Mészáros (2008), Sousa Junior (2010, 2013), Pinto (2010), Lombardi (2011), Kuenzer (2009), Frigotto (2010), Frigotto; Ciavatta; Ramos (2005, 2010), and others. The analysis of the relationship between education and work in the Technical Course in Agricultural Integrated at the High School allowed understand that in the current phase of capitalist development, this relationship is elementary and inevitable in the training process. It is, therefore, an issue that goes beyond the school setting due to the fact to be determined by the socioeconomic context, which gives the educational institution the function of forming workers to work in the labor market, which is diverse, competitive and flexible. The interviews with three teachers revealed that the course presents duality formative between general education (high school) and professional education (technical education). Thus, in addition to the course consist of these two types of education, there is a relationship between education and work in technical education, which aims to train the workforce to the market. In the reports of teachers it was noted that the relationship between education and work of technical education occurs in school activities that seek to link theory and practice in technical disciplines, namely: practical classes, technical visits and supervised training mandatory, among others. In all these cases, the knowledge taught in class can be applied in professional activities related to the area of technical training of the student.