Estudo comparado da educação profissional em países da América do Sul: os casos de Brasil, Bolívia, Colômbia e Uruguai

Abstract

This article conceives a comparative dialogue about professional education in South American countries, especially Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Uruguay. It aims at identifying convergences and divergences within models of professional education practiced by the countries that were the subject of this research. Qualitative research was used as a methodological approach to perform a compared analysis of information recorded in official documents belonging to the nations that were studied and available in bibliographic resources. The comparative enabled the comprehension that there are more similarities than differences regarding professional education that is experienced in the four countries that were analyzed, considering each nation’s social-historical-cultural specificities.