Meritocracia na educação para o trabalho: contradições na formação de trabalhadores

Abstract

This study discusses the meritocracy as the guiding element of the ideological training of workers. It also analyzes the relationship of education to the working world. Adopts the technical bibliographic study. Its reference Frigotto (1986), Rossi (1977), Arapiraca (1979) among others. It is partially a result of the research project: the Professional Education Place the Federal Institutes of Education. The text on the trails of vocational education in Brazil presenting a panoramic view, looking at the beginning when there was the prospect of fighting crime and idleness, through the 1940s when introducing training for the industry and the 1970s, a period of Brazil's agreements with USAID, unveiling the desire to produce manpower required to requiring the market, selling the employee the Theory of Human Capital, con that does believe that the more qualified the better your work and your earnings without take into consideration that this improvement is only for the privileged few and not for the whole working class.