Educação profissional e tecnológica em um Brasil em transformação: o contexto histórico de implantação do ensino técnico na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

The present dissertation is being developed by the Postgraduate Program in Professional and Technological Education, Academic Master's Course in Professional and Technological Education, from the Industrial Technical College of Santa Maria (CTISM), an integral unit of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Through it, it is intended, based on bibliographical research and documentary analysis, to reflect on the national and international historical process that stimulated the implementation of technical education at the UFSM. It will start from the principle of the correlation of historical facts, based on authors of historical-dialectical materialism, to establish reflections on the historical framework that influenced the implementation of technical education in the scope of UFSM, the first Federal University installed in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul state, as well as comparing this line of thought with other researchers representing other research lines. The 1950s and 1960s were marked by the reordering of the capitalist productive model. This was at the time when Brazil began to feel the effects of the so-called "Green Revolution", which occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, established new parameters for world agricultural production, based on the high mechanization of crops, application of pesticides seeds and the use of new cultivation techniques. It was also in this context of polarization of the "Cold War," that Brazil effectively defined its role in the face of the new demands of capitalism, for example the "MEC-USAID" agreement and the establishment of new educational guidelines. This was also the period of implementation of the civil-military dictatorship whose governments articulated the mechanisms for the new relations between capital and labor. This research intends to reflect on this complex historical moment, seeking to (re)signify the context of the implantation of the professional technical education of average level in UFSM in the light of historical materialism. education of average level in UFSM in the light of historical materialism.