Política de desenvolvimento econômico e formação profissional: os egressos do curso de mecânica industrial do PROEJA-IFCE (2007-2009), campus Juazeiro do Norte/CE

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the PROEJA in the context of professional education policy and its relation to local economic development, taking the statements of the students who graduated from the Mechanical Industrial PROEJA IFCE-campus Juazeiro-CE, when they represent their experiences work before the propagated promise of employability. Therefore, we performed bibliographic research for better understanding of the changes occurring in the world of work and in professional education policy. The central part of the documentary analysis in our investigation was the examination of two documents of PROEJA: (1) Basic Document and (2) Political Pedagogical Project course in the Mechanical Industrial PROEJA offered by IFCE campus Juazeiro-EC. We conducted semi-structured interviews with students who graduated from the Mechanical Industrial PROEJA-IFCE, Campus Juazeiro, 2007.1-2010.1 class. In fact, the changes in the development model of the Cariri demanded qualification for the working class. From this explanation, some courses are designed to meet this demand, including the PROEJA with qualification in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal Institute of Industrial Education, Science and Technology-IFCE. Due to the pressure of economic and technological transformations caused by the restructuring process, it becomes important to the discussion in order to redefine the role of the educational proposal to the working class. Actually, we see that the real interests of the bourgeois class in education is priority to the interests of specific capitalist business. Looking at PROEJA’s documents we can understand that the demand of professional education is according with the needs of the productive sector. Even though the education has being treated like any other commodity or service, no doubt under the neoliberal principles, it is comprehensive too that it has been build from the logic of the market. This way, the curriculum became undertakes, making it narrower and separated from practice. In contradiction to the democratic ideology, which the curriculum of vocational character proclaims defend, actually, the neoliberal education in general reproduces the existence of reproductive social division. The PROEJA hasn’t provided opportunities for workers to articulate the acquired knowledge through the development of its curriculum in their work, neither it can raise awareness of this critical subject as a cornerstone of a complete, critical and emancipator formation.