Entrepreneurial education and professional education: a critical reflection on theoretical and methodological issues

Abstract

In Brazil, the recent advancement of economy, of industrialization and of the consequent diffusion of technology, of the changes in the workplace and in the context of organizations put forth the need for changes in professional education. Accordingly, this article discusses the present role of vocational education to promote reflection on the role of teaching and learning methodologies, as well as a proposal for professional education related to entrepreneurial education. To fulfill this course of action, the analysis was based on theoretical texts. Firstly, were flagged issues concerning theories underlying professional education, particularly in Gramsci and Giroux, about the context and application of teaching methodologies and on a proposal for entrepreneurial education. Furthermore, it is proposed the debate about the role of vocational education from a political and emancipatory position, identified in Adorno and Saviani. Far from exhausting all these questions, but rather to provide subsidies to a necessary discussion, we present some theoretical and methodological possibilities of performance of professional education.