O Ensino Médio Integrado e a Educação Profissional e Tecnológica: para além da adequação à lógica do capitalismo flexível

Abstract

This thesis focused on the implementation of the Computer Science Technician Program integrated with high school education at the Campos Centro and Bom Jesus do Itabapoana campuses of the Fluminense Federal Institute (IFFluminense), and the Environmental Control Technician Program integrated with high school education and the Environmental Technician Program integrated with high school education at the Nilópolis and Pinheiral campuses, respectively, of the Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute (IFRJ). It also focused on shedding light on the development and implementation of an integrated curricular proposal that counters the logic of flexible capitalism. Considering public education as a duty of the Brazilian state; access to it as a subjective right guaranteed by law; and, finally, Integrated High School as a Public Policy for Vocational and Technological Education, the thesis was based on the categories of totality, contradiction, and mediation, and on the diversity of curricular proposals offered on these campuses. It considered work and education from historical and ontological perspectives, countering the idea of training a flexible human being. It was based on a qualitative and quantitative approach, using historical and dialectical materialism as its analytical method, and drawing on theoretical insights from David Harvey, Richard Sennett, and Ricardo Antunes, among others. Furthermore, the thesis focused on strengthening Integrated High School Education at the listed institutions, as well as providing a theoretical and methodological source relevant to the Federal Network of Technological Professional Education. It demonstrated that there is no clear position regarding the implementation of integrated high school education, much less how it could counter the prevailing thinking of flexible capitalism, which exploits the workforce on an exponential scale.