VOCATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING IN AN ERA OF INCREASED DUALITY
Key words: Teacher Training; Vocational Education; Federal Institutes; Educational Policy.
ABSTRACT
BOANAFINA, Anderson Teixeira. Vocational Teacher Training in an Era of Increased Duality. Thesis (Doctorate in Education, Contemporary Contexts and Popular Demands). 267p. Institute of Education / Multidisciplinary Institute, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica/Nova Iguaçu, RJ, 2020.
This Thesis studies teacher training for professional and technological education at the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology-FIs and aims to investigate the influence and effects of duality in the provision of these courses, from 2008 to 2018, seeking to reveal the concepts and contradictions in institutional documents and in the legislation in force. As a hypothesis, the research assumes that, despite being an institutional model designed to be innovative, the FIs still maintain the same conservative conceptions about teaching for technical courses; a legacy of the old and traditional federal institutions that, even after the merger process, remains active in the form of dominant culture, expressed in its official documents, sustained by the structural duality that maintains the logic of adapting the school to the demands of the capitalist mode of production , moving away from the concept of education for work, which is fundamentally centered on the human being. The investigative path adopted traces a comparative trajectory between two moments of profound changes in professional education: the Capanema Reform (1940) and the Professional Education Reform (2004), and then deals with the creation of the Professional, Scientific and Technological Federal Educational Network (2008), the institutionalization of FIs, and the main consequences for Brazilian education. The emphasis is on the characterization of teacher training for this modality of education, discussing the clashes involving the reproduction and overcoming forces, conception disputes, and contradictions that mark professional education and habitus, active in federal institutions of vocational education. As a methodological procedure, in order to carry out this study a triangulation of sources is constructed based on the immersion in primary and secondary sources; the reflexive analysis of official documents from the Federal Institutes, such as the Institutional Development Plan, and the critical appreciation of the framework formed by the legislation and policies that configure the two historical moments studied. The research uses the foundations of dialectical historical materialism as a guiding axis, supported by authors on the subject, in the quest to unveil the connections between the object under study and the structure of our society. In addition, the method values historicity and the relationship between the material base and representations of reality, which is characterized as the ideal and necessary support for the development of the proposed investigation. The thesis is concluded by proving the hypothesis that gave rise to it when identifies that more than ten years after its creation, the degrees for Professional and Technological Education-PTE did not prosper and, although the FIs have specialization initiatives and masters in PTE, these courses are incipient in the context of others. In addition, it is still early to assess whether these courses are more suited to institutional interests for having qualified staff, which add value in the official assessment, or whether they really intend to stimulate a pedagogy of professional and technological education, leading to advances in training courses for middle level.