Reestruturação produtiva e reforma da educação profissional no governo FHC (1994 -2002): o decreto 2.208/97 e o CEFET-PE

Abstract

The research sought to investigate the changes in historical materiality and subjectivity, especially, the reinterpretation of the State in its comprehensive sense and its responsibilities, particularly in education, especially vocational education, and more specifically at the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Pernambuco (CEFETPE .) We examined how the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1994-2002) was linked to a corporate neoliberal project, in which educational policies were linked to macroeconomic policies, not in a mechanistic way, but only being understood from this scenario. We discussed the different views and representations on the work, historically constructed, which reflected accordingly in the school social role, along with presenting the history of vocational education in Brazil. We aimed to discern what the role assigned to vocational education was, considering the inclusion of Brazil as a peripheral capitalist economy, marked by an exclusionary model and with a slave past. We analyzed the educational policies implemented during FHC period, particularly, the Decree-Law no. 2.208/1997, highlighting the role of the Programa de Expansão da Educação Profissional (PROEP) in the adequacy of the CEFETPE to the frame called for by the New LDB (Law 9.394/96) and that decree, which materialized reforms in vocational education, especially the CEFETPE, reinforcing the educational dualism existing in this institution. Such a dualism engendered developments that promoted increased participation of private school graduates over those from public schools in the profile of students in the Centre. We analyzed how these changes have been imposed without the participation of the segments that make up the institution, object of transformations, and also how they have contributed to disrupt education in the federal system of technical education, especially the CEFETPE, reinforcing the dualism existing in this educational institution. The methodology used was documentary analysis, focusing the Decree 2.208/97 and related laws, requiring incursion by the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education, Verdict of the National Education (CNE), the Federal Constitution of 1988, Management (semestral) reports, Statistical Yearbook, reports of vestibular socioeconomic questionnaires and other documents, all issued by CEFETPE. Concomitantly, we analyzed others which were about the topic, as well as reading data from the National Institute of Educational Research Anízio Teixeira (INEP) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).