Ressignificações das políticas educacionais no estado capitalista: ensino médio e educação profissional

Abstract

The State as an intervener of social problems creates measures of social inclusion through the implementation of policies to attend specific audiences. The aim of this article is to discuss the (re)significations of the policies of integration between Secondary and Professional Education in the context of the capitalist State, observing the current Brazilian State model and the actions taken to elaborate the educational public policies. In order to accomplish the objective of this work, a bibliographical and documentary research was adopted as a methodological course. In the bibliographical review, there was a dialogue, among others, with works by: Ianni (1971), Carnoy (1988), Santos (1982), Afonso (2001) and Höfling (2001), discussing the conceptions of the State and its transformations in the context of modern society; Bonfim (2008), presenting the formation of the Brazilian State and Moura (2012), Kuenzer (2009), Santos (2007), Ciavatta & Ramos (2011) and Kuenzer & Grabowski (2006), addressing the reforms and organization of Secondary and Professional Education. Concomitantly to the bibliographic review, a documentary research was carried out in order to understand how public policies are laid down in the official literature. This last one was based on the following documents: Decree number 2.208/1997, Decree number 5.154/2004, Decree number 6.302/2007 and Decree number 6.094/2007. In this sense, policies are acts that demand actions and practices, supported by laws, decrees and norms and these can serve to conduct the fabric of social and economic relations in a reproductive and/or a transformative way.