Educação politécnica : as experiências docentes e a reestruturação do ensino médio em duas escolas de Santa Cruz do Sul.

Abstract

This dissertation, developed during the Graduate Program in Education offered at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC) under the research line Education, Work and Empowerment, aims at understanding how the high school's reestructuring process took effect after Polytechnic approaches were introduced to their curriculums. This study was based on teaching experiences and it took place in two different state schools located in Santa Cruz do Sul—RS. This study also seeks to discuss the current outline of public policies linked to the last stage of basic education (high school) focusing on the relations between education and work. And the reason why this study is doing it is because this subject is approached as an educational principle by the current education policies and it is inserted in a neoliberal national and international context. How such reforms may contribute for an emancipatory education under the view of Critical Theories? A case study - or multycase - was used for the development of this research and it aims at understanding, based on teaching practices and school reality, the effects and challenges coming from the implementation of a Polytechnic High School program during the restructuring process of the curriculum in both schools.