Professional education in brazil

history

Abstract

This article presents an overview history of professional education, from the remote periods of history until the emergence of new technologies in the productive sector in recent decades. When dealing with professional education in Brazil, the paper shows that the training is done by schools of public and private sectors and the agencies of the S System, keeping close relationship with the technological advances. Based on the current Brazilian educational legislation and in the face of the responsibility of the teaching institutions, of producing collective and flexible knowledge, tuned with the new bases and forms of productive organization, founded on production and diffusion of technological innovations, education by competence is described as an adequate methodology for professional education.