Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Pronko, Marcela
Figari, Claudia
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2003-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
340 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
BRA
2003-2015
Abstract
The study describes and analyses the nature and the purpose of the expansion of vocational education during the two terms of Lula da Silva, as well as the first term and two first years of the second term of Dilma Rousseff as presidents of Brazil. Based on the intersection between the areas of political economy and the economics of education, the research presents elements to comprehend the inflection of the overall educational policies, and vocational education in particular, according to the predominant model of reproduction of capital in Brazil in the last three decades. Adopting the Marxist critique to the myth of economic development to tackle the new-developmentalist theories - that had some influence on the administrations of PT (Workers Party) – which brings elements that enable the understanding of the inequalities generated by the connections established by the central and peripheral economies, this study supports the hypothesis that the nature of the expansion of vocational education must be analyzed based on two movements that articulate with each other. The first one prescribes that there is an intrinsic relation between the process of the reproduction of capital and the development of a large number of surplus workers with low qualification that hold positions and occupations typical of unskilled labor. Based on the concept of ‘precariat” advocated by Ruy Braga, we adopt the proposition that the educational policies during the period in question have been oriented to the incorporation of this population in the job market, through low qualification and high instrumentalisation courses, necessary to the model of reproduction of peripheral capitalism. In the case of Brazil, because of the characteristics of its class structure and social formation, general education has historically been structured to maintain a fragmentation that, when it doesn’t simply exclude a considerable part of the population from the schooling process, incorporates segments according to the social division of labor, creating a structural duality on the educational system. During the period in question, an emphasis was given to a type of qualification that promotes little change on the constant flow of the population belonging to this “precariat” between the submission to socioeconomic exclusion and overexploitation. The second movement supported by the research is that the expansion of vocational education has been connected to the creation of favorable political and economical conditions to the processes of capital appreciation, opening new possibilities of commercialization in a promising field that also includes higher education. This is confirmed, firstly, by the transference of resources to the private sector, mainly through the actions undertaken within the National Program for Access to Vocational Education and Employment (PRONATEC), with an emphasis on the Student Financing Fund (Fies) and the incentive given to distance education; secondly, by the processes implemented towards the free movement of capital that favored and stimulated the creation of investment funds in education. To substantiate the argumentation supported by the study, it presents an historical approach of the Brazilian social formation in order to situate vocational education as a specific mediation of human formation in the entirety of social relations. It also carries out a longitudinal quantitative analysis of the data of the Census of Basic Education, as well as a documentary analysis of various materials produced by the Ministry of Education and by corporate and trade union entities, correlating this data to the analysis of the macroeconomic behavior during this period and the characteristics of the job market.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales