Profissionalização do ensino médio no Brasil: a educação dirigida à classe trabalhadora

Abstract

In this paper we aim to examine the perspective of professionalization that is repeatedly imposed on Brazilian high school as a strategy of professional qualification, which is directed to people in the working class, and to reflect on some aspects of its manifestation in the Law n. 13.415/2017. It is a theoreticalbibliographic and documentary study in which we search elements for the analyses from historical facts and some legal devices concerning to this stage/modality of basic education. The laws we analyzed were: Law n. 1.821/53, Law n. 4.024/61, Law n. 5.692/71, Law n. 7.044, Law n. 9.394/96, Law n. 12.513, and Law n. 13.415/2017. We consider the relation between school education and professional qualification of people in the working class as a relevant topic in the (neo)liberal project of national economic develoment, being this, in turn, linked to the expansion of the capitalism, during the 20th century, and, in contemporaneity, to structural crisis that runs through the capital system. Based on such facts, we conclude that the historically instituted design for high school, rewritten in the Law n. 13.415/2017, reinforces the dual condition of the Brazilian school education, besides giving to school the function of contributing with the resolution of social-economic issues, which are aggravated by the referred crisis.