A lousa e o torno : a Escola SENAI Roberto Mange, de Campinas / The blackboard and the lathe : SENAI "Robert Mange", Campinas, Brazil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Teaching young people and children how to work has been an usual concern in the majority of the human groups. In Brazil, it appears since the colonial period: inside the houses, at workshops or in proper institutions, professional education has always been developed, but maintaining the characteristics of philanthropy or the army, it has been, most of the time, destined to "poor, orphan or misfortunate people". During the final years of the Imperial period and the first decades of the Republic period, the government, the civil society and the Church created some institutions of this type with the stated goal to not only provide professional education but also to try to keep the social peace, by keeping poor teenagers and children indoors, in spaces where they could be rained to be future manual workers, because the intellectual work had lways been reserved to the rich children. In 1942, as an integrating part of the so called "Capanema Reformation" SENAI (National Service of Industrial Learning) was created through Edict number 4048 by President Getulio Vargas, with the direct interference of the entrepreneur elite, represented by Robert Simonsen, Robert Mange, Euvaldo Lodi and others. The explanation for such creation was the "lack of necessary arms to the industrial field, then in expansion". We defend, however, the thesis that this premise is not true and that the creation of schools providing professional formation was, actually, necessary for the maintenance and growth of the capitalism. The institutionalization of SENAI, differently from the speech which states that the industrial managers had "idealized" it due to a demand from the government, our researched showed that nor the enterprise mass (small and medium business owners) nor the workers had understood it at first, not being able to see it as an institution which belonged to all. but as another duty for taxes collection which could bring unemployment to those who wouldn´t attent it. However, once implemented, SENAI turned out to be, for many years, the hegemonic institution for the formation of industrial labor workers in Brazil, searching to be closer to the productive system and further from education itself. This study meant to analyse the way how the professional education offered at SENAI is configurated based on dialect-historical materialism, considering the method which was adopted (the SMO - Occupational methodical grades), the criteria for approval and enrollment of apprentice-students, it´s academical and administrative rules and the profile of the students the institution expects to form and also the parts of the interior process which remained and which were ruptured during its almost seventy years. Using SENAI Roberto Mange school, in the city of Campinas, as a subject of study, this research concluded that SENAI established a model of professional education which moves between the desire of the elite to hold the power to, through such courses, train workers who they will be able to hire later and the speech of "rendered public service", through which they try to convince the public opinion that an uninterested democratic education is actually offered, and with this research we hope to have helped decompose such statements.

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education and work senai ensino profissional senai educação e trabalho - brasil professional education

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