Tecnólogo: crise de identidade e corrosão do caráter

Abstract

In 1997, the federal government instituted a reform at the professional education level, aiming at adjusting the curricula of the education institutions that are part of the Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica to the immediate market needs. At that time, it extinguished/ ended the integrated education and implemented three professional education modalities: basic, technical and technological. The latter targeted at attending the workforce demanded by the new flexible automation practices. In 1999, the by then Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Ceará – CEFET-CE instituted its first Technologist Tertiary education courses – (Cursos Superiores Teconológicos – CST): Mechatronics and Telematics, both the object of the present analysis. Twenty years after the reform, many things changed in terms of the technological machines and the working relation, without the technologist achieving its professional recognition in the labour market. The Technologist National Associations – ANT and the Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy Federal Council - CONFEA published the “Technologist handbook” aiming at obtain these professionals recognition, as well as confer them an identity. Based on the analysis of this cooperated guide and other documents related to the Bologna Declaration (1999) and the Jacques Delors Reports (2010), supported by Karl Marx’s value theory (1985, 1887) and the workforce qualification-disqualification tendency by Aécio Oliveira (2006) and Marcelo Marques (2016), this investigation will reflect on the structure that shapes the collective identity and the character of the technologist subject.