Processos de (re)significação do signo ensino profissional: ecos da escravidão na Educação Profissional Tecnológica no Brasil

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that the State's discourse on vocational education, given the national historical particularities, has a majority dimension of being only a strategy of transferring to the army of reserve labor, to the detriment of the qualification technical and technological advancement of the productive forces. In order to achieve such an aim, the discursive memory functioning in the dispute of the senses and the class struggle that is triggered in the discursive material produced by the Brazilian State is analyzed, especially the beginning of its republican phase and the conjuncture of the last decade, in the concerning their "educational politics for the working class" and the "access to employment", analyzing the most varied senses, from the places where they are produced. Thus, through Discourse Analysis, anchored in Dialectical Historical Materialism and from the categories of Conditions of Production, Discursive Memory and Ideological Formation, we will demonstrate the meanings about professional education and the limits of vocational education discourse such as access to employment in the Brazilian dependent hypertardial capitalism in times of systemic crisis.