Formação para o trabalho em cursos superiores de tecnologia: uma análise a partir da perspectiva da ontologia do ser social marxiana

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to analyze the content and essence of the process of formation developed in four higher education courses of technology related to the industrial area and offered by the Institute of Technology of UNA Unatec in Belo Horizonte. These four courses Industrial Production Management, Industrial Automation, Industrial Mechatronics, and Industrial Maintenance are normally taken mostly by professionals that are already in the industrial area and that are aiming, with the help of the specific formation proposed by these courses, for a better job position and new opportunities where they can perform their work activities. Based on interviews with students, professors, coordinators, and the board of directors of Unatec, it was possible to verify how the categories of work, education, and social transformation become effective in the formation processes and are experienced in each of these realities student, educator, and management. The 23 interviews, and the observation of some of the classes, enabled the identification of the profile of the students that seek a technologist academic degree, and their expectations for the training offered by the institute, as well as their professional performance. The theoretical starting point was the ontology of the social being of marxian perspective, examining later how work and its ontological centrality situate themselves against the crisis of capital. The emancipatory prerogative of a omnilateral education was identified considering the inseparable relationship between work and education. Finally, the history of higher education in technology in Brazil, its recent expansion, and the current policies for technological and professional education were researched.