Pronatec: educação profissional, trabalho docente e precarização

Abstract

With the aim of internalizing, expanding and democratizing the offer of professional and technological education courses, as well as contributing to the progressive improvement of the quality of public secondary education, the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment — Pronatec was created, which also aims to expand educational and qualified professional training opportunities for young people, workers and beneficiaries of income transfer programs. The growing demand for courses offered by National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment has increased the supply of professional vacancies to work in this teaching model. The objective of this dissertation was to analyze the labor implications arising from the performance of these professionals within the scope of National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment, based on theories of work flexibility and precariousness enshrined in educational, sociological and legal theory that focus on the understanding of current class relations. This is qualitative exploratory research, using bibliographic and documentary research. We chose to analyze the notices published by the Center for Professional and Technological Education — CEPT, of the State University of Montes Claros — Unimontes, from 2015 to 2020, obtained through files available on the website of that institution. It was observed that the performance of professionals within the scope of National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment is governed by service provision contracts, which suggest the absence of an employment relationship, labor and social security funds, despite the control of working hours, subordination, remuneration and other legal elements. characteristics of employment relationships. It is concluded that the transformations in education with the expansion of professional education promoted by Pronatec are contradictory, because if on the one hand it promotes the internalization, expansion and democratization of the offer of professional and technological education courses, on the other hand, this same program captures professionals who are subject to increasingly precarious employment contracts, with deteriorating working conditions, and covered by legal uncertainty.