AS DIRETRIZES CURRICULARES NACIONAIS PARA A EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL TÉCNICA DE NÍVEL MÉDIO: AVANÇOS, RETROCESSOS OU PERMANÊNCIAS?

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the conception of vocational education in the National Curriculum Guidelines for the Middle Level Technical Vocational Education in order to understand how is the relationship between capital and labor and its implications for the formulation of the mentioned document. In this sense, the theoretical framework that guides this research lies within the dialectical and historical materialism, constituting a bibliographic and documentary research, carried through the analysis of the (new) National Curriculum Guidelines for the Middle Level Technical Vocational Education (CNE/CEB No. 06/2012 and CNE/CEB No. 11/2012). The labor category is taken as central discussion, as well as its senses and configurations considering its relations with education, under the dictates of capital, drawing from Marx (2011), Marx and Engels (2007), Lukács (2012), Netto and Braz (2010), Saviani (1989, 2007). In addition, we sought to address, drawing from Mészáros (2008, 2011a, 2011b), the ‘Capital, Labor and State’ tripod as essential category for understanding the study object of this research. Thus, grounded among others in Frigotto (2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2012a, 2012b), Kuenzer (2002, 2008, 2011), Ramos (2010, 2011a, 2012), Ciavatta and Ramos (2012); this research sought to raise determining factors in the education of the worker resulting from the changes caused by the industrial restructuring and flexible accumulation, explaining the implications for the Vocational Education from the 1990s. In this investigative journey, the examination of the conceptual basis and categories highlighted in CNE/CEB No. 11/2012 and CNE/CEB No. 06/2012 took place from the analyzes of Moura (2013) and Saviani (1989 2003), among others, as well as the survey of how these documents are located in the context of relations between capital and labor and to what extent the documents gave legitimacy to polytechnic education and pointed conditions for its development. From these analyzes, we identified improvements, setbacks and also continuities in the new guidelines with respect to previous guidelines. Current guidelines harbor contradictions that, from the point of view of an education project, weaken the idea of integral human education and, in this sense, the possibility of education processes guided by polytechnic. From this perspective, and agreeing with the authors that supported this research, the main challenge ahead certainly lies in Integrating Secondary School and Vocational Education, in its implementation as a right and its effectiveness considering an education project aligned with the polytechnic perspective. Thus, this research carries the intention of adding contributions in this complex and contradictory field.