O ensino secundário profissionalizantes nas décadas de 1970 E 1980: aspectos da lei número 5692/71

Abstract

This essay studies professional secondary during the decades within 1970 and 1980. In the first chapter it focuses the conceptual bases from the work and education categories, studies the polytechnic and unitary school, taking as bases the thoughts of Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci, and it also deals with the alienation and the bourgeois school unification concepts based on studies conducted by Brazilian authors.The second chapter deals with the transformations occurred at the world of work and its influence on the school organization. It is eminent the capitalist onjuncture where there is a dependence of the external capital at the “Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional” (National law which rules the Education) number 5.692/71, characterized by the liberal techniques orientation and responsible for the legal strategy of prevention of the polytechnics at the professional courses. The third chapter deals with the configuration of the professional courses on the capitalist ideology. The pedagogical support of liberal orientation, the possibilities of cultural formation of the pupils during the decade are studied in this part of the essay. It is concluded that, where the importance of the existence of studies about the possibilities of a critical formation in that educational context, the official orientation of the Brazilian professional education concurred to keep the workers in the function of producers and consumers of merchandises, without thoughts and attitudes of plea in the presence of the context where they were inserted.