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CREATION OF FEDERAL INSTITUTES OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION POLICY BASED ON ITS NEW INSTITUTIONALITY

Professional and Technological Education. Creation of Federal Institutes of Education. Public education policies. New institutionality. Neoliberalism. Integral Education.

This thesis, entitled “Creation of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology: an analysis of the metamorphosis of professional education policy based on its new institutionality”, is the result of research developed in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the University Federal District of Alagoas (PPGE/CEDU/UFAL) with influence from the State, Social Policies and Education Research Group (GEPE/UFAL), which started from the hypothesis that the creation of Federal Institutes (IFs), through Law No. 11,892/2008 , promoted a new institutionality, which appears to be a revolution in Brazilian professional education, given its originality, innovation and combativeness against Brazil's neoliberal ideology, based on integral education, for example, and the new institutionality that is a path within the existing limitations for breaking with neoliberal legislation, above all, through new regulatory frameworks. The chronological cut corresponded to the years 2008 to 2018, a period related to the first, second and third phases of the expansion of the Federal Professional Education Network. This investigation is justified by the fact that the New Professional and Technological Education Policy, from 2008 onwards, provides comprehensive education, above all, through integrated secondary education. Regarding the methodological aspect, it is a descriptive, documentary, quantitative-qualitative and bibliographical research, based on research and reading of the contents of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), in the CAPES Dissertations and Theses database, from the electronic library of scientific journals Scielo and Google Scholar, in addition to the use of interviews and a semi-structured questionnaire. The theoretical framework is based on historical materialism, centered on the works of Marx (2003; 2013), Marx and Engels (2004), Gramsci (1982; 1988; 1999), Mészáros (2005; 2008), Martins (2018), Saviani ( 2004), Ortigara and Ganzeli (2013), Rua (2014), Nosella (2011), Ciavatta, (2005; 2010; 2018), Dante (2016), Kuenzer (2006), Ramos (2011), Frigotto (2012), Machado (2011), Otranto (2010), among other theorists in the field of professional education and public policies on professional education. As a result of our analyses, we came to the conclusion that the creation of IFs was a revolution for professional education in Brazil and its new institutionality provides opportunities for innovation, inclusion, regional development, teaching, research, extension, autonomy and social transformation arising from education, science and technology offered by FIs.