A gestão escolar e o programa PRONATEC em uma escola do SENAC: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The goal of this research is to analyse the academic management in a college within the National Program of Access to Professional Education and Employment (PRONATEC) which belongs to the medium level Professional and Technician Education Policy. In a globalized world where everyone has the right of education, vocational education should not only prepare the students to work life but educate them to be citizens capable of understanding and participating in society that has been getting more demanding and complex nowadays. This program was launched by the Federal Government which gives basic education students the opportunity to seek for vocational education along with elementary education through partnerships public/private. From the selection criteria, restricted to students registered in the medium level of basic education, in this case, the course is paid by the government expecting to achieve one of the program’s goals that the intended qualification results in the improvement of public high schools quality. Based on this presupposed and on the Basic Vocational and Medium Level Education Guidelines Law, it is searched to question the academic management in the PRONATEC development at a SENAC school, also to analyse the meaning of the program to school and students related to public high schools integrated to vocational schools, in order to enable to plan learning with a vision of groping the future of young students, motivating them to conclude basic level education and preparing them to professional reality, nicely committing to the intellectual growth and future perspectives.