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This work aims at analyzing Uberlândia s business thinking development which is represented by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Uberlândia, and its educational projects for workers training. The study was developed with an extensive literature search and a detailed survey of documentary sources. Through analysis of the entity s minutes and articles from local newspapers we could present the political, economic, social and educational projects of Uberlândia s entrepreneurs. Access to documentary sources allowed us to recover the city s economic history, linking the local scene to the development of capitalism in national and international level. Unlike the official discourse of the ideal, rich, and industrialized city, the thesis has found another reality that was ignored because it contradicts the city project, conceived by the local economic elite. Despite the ideological discourse that insisted on asserting the eternal partnership between capital and labor, the historical reality has shown that Uberlândia experienced in the decades 1940 to 1960 many conflicts of classes and, in fact, its economy was noted for its preponderance in agriculture and trade, particularly in the wholesale branch. The Vocational School of Industrial Learning Américo Renê Giannetti was selected as a major educational project led by the Chamber. Our objective in analyzing the school was to understand the participation and the real interests of the entity before the political local and state powers in creating the school in the city. The influences of the national-developmental thinking and the adoption of the IDORT/Taylorist principles of rationalization of the working world were present in the daily life of the Association. Although the desire was to transform Uberlândia into an Industrial City as a reference for the state and country, the thesis showed that the city was different from what was projected and idealized for it.

The focus of this research was to study the professional profile of graduates from higher education courses in Environmental Management and of professional courses of Bachelor and Technology. This research is due the following reasons: courses are a little over ten years of existence, are in the process of building an identity, are new to the institutions that offer and also require a new look at the curriculum and academic knowledge. The objective was to investigate the professional profile of the Environmental Manager and curriculum adopted for its formation. The working hypothesis was that, to address the complexity of this professional training, the teaching model and curriculum needs to break with the dominant model in the Brazilian higher education. Guided by the paradigm of complexity, has become the choice of qualitative research, therefore, the data of interest to disclose the matter of the proposed research are made up of meanings, readings, prints, among others, as sources with bibliographies, documents and people. We selected four institutions offering the course Environmental Management, two courses of Bachelor and two of Technology with different curricular approaches: Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz - ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo (Bachelor disciplinary), Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR Campus Litoral (Bachelor modular interdisciplinary), Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, CEFET/RJ (Technology disciplinary), Instituto Federal do Triângulo Mineiro - IFTM Campus Uberaba (Technology modular). The literature review sought to raise questions about the epistemological and philosophical Modern Science, knowledge, education and curriculum, based on contributions from Morin, Santos, Adorno and Horkheimer, Leff, Apple, Sacristan, Goodson, among others. For the documentary research projects were selected pedagogical courses (curriculum) Environmental Management and other relevant documents. The field research was carried out using the technique of semistructured interviews with the course coordinators, teachers, students and graduates of four courses in Environmental Management, whose sample was characterized as intentional (stratified and directed). Analysis of data was performed using the technique of content analysis to identify, interpret and contextualize the ideas contained in documents and speeches of the interviewees. The results confirmed the hypothesis of the research, because the traditional disciplinary curriculum, the courses of Bachelor of ESALQ and of Technology of CEFET/RJ showed greater degree of limitation for the formation of the Environmental Manager in relation to modular curriculum (IFTM Uberaba and UFPR Litoral), especially with regard to the formation of an integrated look (systemic view) of environmental issues. On the other hand, the course of Bachelor of Environmental Management UFPR Litoral, with a modular curriculum and interdisciplinary pedagogical practice oriented by project pedagogy, presented the results consistent with the formation of a trader. The course of Technology IFTM Uberaba presented limitations due to the lack of identity of the course (Blending Management and Environmental Sanitation) and a design module as simple grouping of related disciplines.

The aim of this study was to analyze the subject \"Environmental Education\" offered in the course of Biological Sciences - Federal University at Uberlândia, from 2009/1-2, to understand its limits and possibilities for the improvement of the Environmental Education in the formation of a biologist. The parameters and guidelines were taken from Tbilisi theoretical discussion. The discussion about subject, specialization, curriculum and (inter)disciplinarity in the context of the ongoing paradigm changes in Science also was considered to the analysis and the relationship between Biology and environmental issues. Within the qualitative research, we have chosen the case study, which has been widely used since the 1990s by researchers of Environmental Education. We have selected the discipline as a case, covering the students, the teacher in charge, practices in the classroom and in the field, as well as its insertion in the area of Teaching Practice of the Course Pedagogical Program and at the Institute of Biology of UFU. The strategies for the construction of the survey data were observation and participation in class in two semesters, analysis of the pedagogical course program, a questionnaire for students, interviews with some students who attended the courses and interview with the teacher in charge. The data analysis allowed the construction of the following categories: the subject in the course pedagogical project of the course; the subject in the course; the hours and location of the subject in the curriculum; the subject and students\' conceptions about Environmental Education; the teaching strategies in the subject; cultural studies in the subject; the subject and the research in Environmental Education; (inter)disciplinarity of the subject and the teaching practices during the subject. The research evidenced the difficulty for interdisciplinary work between the teachers; offering the discipline at the end of the course decreased the chances of the students involvement in research in the area, and the great volume and complexity of the texts used brought difficulties to the future biologists; despite the strangeness of the students to the anthropogenic nature adopted in the subject, it was very appreciated by them; no major advances were found in the students conception of Environmental Education; the course hours were insufficient for practice as well as for the development of projects of social changes; cultural studies permeated the subject with a well explored use of films and texts quite instigating. Data analysis subsidized by the theoretical referential chosen indicated that the offer of Environmental Education as a discipline, though it doesn t constitute in an ideal situation consists of an advance to its insertion on the course and that the course meets some assumptions for environmental education waved in Tbilisi going beyond these guidelines under the influence of other theoretical contributions that support the discussions in the area.

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This research fits into the field of History of Education, sub-area History of School Subjects; it has as its object the trajectory registered by the History of Education , a curricular component of the old normal 1 high school courses in the State of Minas Gerais; it was a subject officially prescribed by the authorities of the educational department of this state, under a relatively autonomous format as from 1928, and thus it remained until the mid-sixties. In order to delineate the contours of the object of this investigation, a guiding fundament was initially constituted, in line with Chervel (1990), which is the idea that a research concerning the history of a school subject should be developed, simultaneously based on two plans: that of prescription and that of teaching. In this line of thought, the hermeneutics starts off with the following query: How did the institutional trajectory of the subject History of Education take shape historically in the external scope and its teaching in the internal scope of the Escola Normal Oficial de Uberaba (MG) (Official School for Primary Teacher Training of Uberaba) from 1928 to 1970? This choice of period corresponds to an outstanding cycle in the existence of this subject in the primary teacher training courses in the state of Minas Gerais. There is no a priori hypothesis to be tested in answering the query, for this is a qualitative research, which was developed with the purpose of covering two plans. Thus, on one hand, in the macro sphere, it contemplates the legislative prescriptions in a state or national scope, and on the other hand, a closer dimension, intends to unveil the pedagogic practices, having as a locus the Escola Normal Oficial de Uberaba (MG). Apart from the referential works related to the theme under development, the research had access to documents from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Minas Gerais, from the Secretariat of Education of the State of Minas Gerais, from the Public Archives of Uberaba-MG (iconographical material and newspapers cuttings) as well as the archives of the schooling institution itself under research. In order to reconstitute the historical memory of the daily school practices, apart from the written documents, there were interviews carried out with old students and one teacher and through them we had contact with notebooks, photos and other historical testimonies. The data obtained allowed us to build up a historical trajectory which covers the prescriptive aspects of the subject right form the very first mention in the curriculums of the State primary school teacher training courses as part of the Pedagogy subject; after this there was its institutionalisation in a relatively autonomous manner at the end of the twenties, going through modifications imposed on a national level as from the Organic Law of Primary Teaching Training (1946), reaching the sixties when again it underwent severe transformations. Concerning the teaching, in the internal plan of the local institution, the performance of two teachers was highlighted: Leôncio Ferreira do Amaral and Wanda Ferreira Prado. We reached them as from a biographical approach which identified them personal and professionally in a detailed manner, and the pedagogic aspect was understood based on the constituents of a school subject (Chervel, 1990), chosen in this research, as categories for analysis, such as: identification of the content (or themes) developed, how it was passed on to the class, the students motivation for this subject, the types of exercises applied for learning the subject and the forms of assessment. Finally, the result of this teaching in the lives of the students.

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Agostinho Zago, in 1953, founded the Training Center on Rural Domestic Economy at Tuticorin, in Triangulo Mineiro, to teach courses for women aimed at the domestic schooling. This center became the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Triangulo Mineiro. The research aimed to reconstruct as far as documentation and testimonies allowed to trace the path and trajectory of the school until 1997 when the course ended and Home Economics, that for many girls, became the instrument of education, social and professional initiation. By mapping the institution what was sought to contribute to the memory register and functionality of the institution in professional education, local and regional level, in particular in the educational background of women. Some questions were raised: What is the identity of the school of home economics? What technical training, vocational and general education offered? The research made use of written sources and documentary as regiments, books, records, arrays curriculum, degree programs, local news and official, photographs and other documents. Also counted with testimonies of servers who worked at the institution. The discussions were bristling from a historical perspective to describe the route of secondary vocational education for women. The belief that has been reached is that the direction of female education were based on educational action with consequences. Created to get young people and prepare them for the performance of traditionally prescribed female roles: mother, wife and educator, the consolidation of the School of Home Economics represented the practical expression of tacit alliance between the state and the oligarchy uberabense who sought an education for conservative his daughters, a strategic basis for the program of civilization of society through schooling.

The objective of this work is to construct a history of the Amapa Institute of Education (IETA), a school for training teachers in the high school level, created in Macapa (AP) in 1949 without proper operating condition, but was gradually acquiring an image of quality public school and enormous prestige among the community of Amapá, until its dissolution in 2005, claiming the restrictions of LDBEN training of teachers in the high school level and the need for physical space to implement State University. The chosen methodology was historical research, qualitative, of literature (texts, articles and books on the IETA), documentary (basic documents and pictures IETA) and field (memoir tells of local), having as epistemological materialism dialectical, methodological foundation in the thought of Justino de Magalhães, Paolo Nosella and Esther Buffa, as the application of the dialectical method of research the history of educational institutions, and Maria Cecilia Minayo, for whom dialectics is a way of thought and research craft an intellectual. The common thread of research are the representations of work and knowledge of the teacher teaching the early grades in school culture of IETA, the way in which they appear in the speech of the actors of the educational practice every day in the curriculum, the distribution of physical space and the architectural designs of the building. In the data collection techniques were used in the methodology inspired by Carlos Ginzbourg. The working hypothesis of the thesis provides the title, because education by example is understood as the representation of instituting educational practice throughout the history of the IETA thus a constant along the trajectory of the school. Thus, the history of the Institute of Education is designed in five phases: pioneer (representations by certain teacher s janarismo New State), consolidation (firm to the representation of education for example), height (maximum of IETA\'s prestige in the community Amapá); crisis and extinction.

The present investigation had as subject of study the teacher education policies for Professional and Technological Education (EPT in Portuguese). Reflecting on teacher education policies for EPT, in a model of society ruled by the capitalist and neoliberal logic, is a challenge that arises in our daily lives because we are actors and authors who make and remake, directly or indirectly, Brazilian education history. The thesis that guided this research was the lack of policies on teacher education for EPT. In this sense, the documentary analysis and literature surveys enabled us to realize that, throughout their history, policies in this area have not set yet as State policy, but rather as government programs that aim to facilitate and regulate the access for professionals (not teachers) to the classrooms of technological education. Regarding these policies, there are the relations among education, work and society. In this context, we discuss and confront the teacher education policies for EPT from the 1990s until today. This starting point, the 1990s, is due to the fact that it was a decade of expansion of college education in Brazil. However, our emphasis will start in 2007, with the implementation of Federal Institutes for Education, Science and Technology (IFETs in Portuguese), which, since then, are obligated to offer teaching degree courses, mission previously delegated to universities. In this context, we sought to understand the meanings and the materialization of the teaching profession in a context where a teaching degree is not a necessary requirement for professional practice, especially in institutions that have no previous experience in providing these kids of courses. The results showed the following situations: i) the materialization of lightened, discontinuous and fragmented teacher education courses programs for EPT; ii) the extraordinary expansion of the Federal Network for Education, Science and Technology has required a greater number of teachers for this level of education; iii ) we identified that the documents of PDIs and PPPs from the IFETs investigated follow MEC / SETEC policies iv) we noticed that some IFETs do not include professional education in basic education, therefore, they are dedicated to educate teachers for basic education, considering only elementary and high school; v) we identified a close link between the category of work and production models; vi) we found that, in New Developmental government of ex-President Lula, there was development of inclusive education policies, consolidated by the IFETs expansion, which, therefore, represented a considerable increase in jobs positions at all levels of professional education. However, we believe that Lula s government has left many conflict situations in order to reach its goal of social inclusion; vii) we perceived a lack of MEC's interest in discussing and regulating policies for teacher education for EPT and also in promulgating national guidelines for such education; and viii) we realized that the institutes themselves are organized in order to value teaching degrees so that they can ensure the requirement for this kind of degrees or special programs for teacher education, in order to practice teaching profession.

This study was centered in the research line of Labor, Society and Education and its subject fits more specifically into the sub areas: Educational Reforms and Impact on Educational Institutions, dealing with the theme \"Formation Policies in Higher Education for Special Education\". Immersing ourselves in this context, the thesis defended in this study was that, with the implementation of the Bologna Process, Higher Education in Brazil, as the rest of the world, was significantly affected influencing or even serving as a model for the reorganization of university structures and of higher education systems emerged from Europe. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the Bologna process and its influence in higher education, especially the Brazilian and Portuguese initial formation policies aiming inclusive education. More specifically: 1) analyze the transformations in Brazilian higher education due to the influence of the Bologna Process in regard to the initial formation with a view to Inclusive Education. 2) Identify the transformations in higher education in Portugal and Brazil from the Bologna process and which are the Brazilian and Portuguese specific special education policies for teacher formation. 3) Describe and reflect on the obstacles, barriers and possibilities of teacher formation for Special Education. About the methodological point of view, we did not start our reflection by similarities, but by the differences from the historical process. It was used the documental research, with descriptive and interpretative analysis features. From the empirical point of view, the study was delimited spatially in the two countries (Brazil and Portugal). The study population was composed by Policy Formation documents for higher and special education in both countries. With the theoretical references, was made the confrontation and analysis of all data found in the development of all the research, namely: deadlocks, barriers and notes for the theme in question. As a result, it was evidenced that the special education model proposed by hegemonic groups, through the public policies for the area, carries within, implications for education systems, for schools, for agencies of initial and continuing formation, as well as for formation policies. It is also a consensus that educational reforms, is increasingly gain an international character and this can be understand as a way to also globalize this sector. Thereby, teacher formation has been a root in all countries, as a way to highlight the importance of educational performance for economic growth - which in theory depends on the performance of education professionals. Regarding the formation for Special Education, the fact is that it is not mentioned in the educational debate at the Bologna Process. The gap between education and special education represents, in our understanding, to be the first and most important discrimination, preventing this type of education to discuss its educational praxis, by placing itself into a secondary category, that upon later subtly protrude all the others discrimination - for example, the civil, legal, labor and cultural.

The object of this research proposal is contemplated in the line of Labor, Education and Society because it is a study on the issue of casualization of teaching in higher education in the form of distance education and refers to the process of commodification of higher education and especially distance education and the impact on the profession through the subordination of knowledge to the imperatives of capital in the reference period 2000 to 2010. The overall goal of the research is to understand the process of casualization of teaching from the commodification of higher education and especially distance education and the impact on the profession tutor. The other objectives are divided into identifying the extent to which this occurs deprofessionalization teacher education tracking, check occurs as the relaxation of labor relations in HEIs and private or public offering distance education through the processes of recruitment, career planning, execution wages and social guarantees in the form of distance education in reference period 2000 to 2010. The methodology used is based on the use of bibliographic references that deal with the theme, documents and interviews with teachers working in Distance Education in HEIs in the Triangulo Mineiro region. In the case of distance education, the figure of the tutor, although the link between the educational institution and the students, as noted, is undervalued, due to ignorance of the importance of it in the learning process. Before the study it was found that the tutor, in most courses, is the only human contact staff with the student during the teaching. He is a professional who encourages and guides students in learning and to continue on course. It was also perceived as a worrying factor that teaching in distance education is strongly affected by the conditions of work, remuneration, number of students per teacher, lack of labor protection and pedagogical attention. Regarding the regulatory aspect, it is observed that there is instability in the labor and lack pedagogical and regulations with respect to schedules and workloads of work, among other things. Thus, although the distance is regulated in a more general level, it lacks in terms of labor regulations. Unions still vacillating position themselves with regard to the protection of labor rights of professionals involved in this process.

This thesis aimed to understand the foreign teacher, its profile, difficulties, contributions permanence challenges and reconstruction of didactic-pedagogical practices and for its professional exercise in the brazilian public universities. The study was justified because of their increasing number particularly during the last decade and also the lack of systematic research of the thematic. Our universe was the UnB, federal public university of Brasilia where we found the bigger number of these teachers. Using the INEP data (micro data of census of higher education, 2011) we could localize those ones. Questionnaires were applied to more than 37,3% of the nationalities present (19 of 51 nationalities) corresponding to 7,6% of the population estimated to 250 teachers, documents consulting (school websites, personnel website, photocopy services). The qualitative analysis and the statistical data treatment allowed us to obtain the following results: the teachers met at UnB are from Latin America and Europe, are white or brunet, are doctors and are contracted full time. They also act in teaching, research and extension. These teachers met many adaptation difficulties in their workplace due to a lack of socialization and help mechanisms in their teaching practices. By means of the complexity paradigm of Edgar Morin, we could confirm that the foreign teacher tried to survive in the brazilian public university within dilemmas and contradictions like cultural problems, alterity and acceptation by the students, its insertion in the own university and is always in search for means to connect the parts. Although, we could note the big contributions of these teachers in the quality of the graduate programs and the international insertion of their universities.

This research theme is the historical trajectory of the discipline History of Education in the formation of normal course students of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio, located in Patrocínio, Minas Gerais. The time line covers the period between 1947, when the institution started offering teaching formation education 2nd Cycle and simultaneously there is the issue of the discipline History of Education in the curriculum, and 1971, when there was 1st and 2nd degrees Reform. As a general objective aims to interpret the historical trajectory of the discipline History of Education in teacher training undertaken in the normal course of the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio, encompassing an approach to identity, space, time, knowledge and teaching methods in the period between 1947 and 1971. As a research method is proposed as literature, documentary research and the use of testimonials from normal course students as empirical evidence (heuristics) to textual interpretation and argumentation (hermeneutics). As a theoretical basis, it recognizes the importance of thinking André Chervel (1990) as a reference for investigations into the History of School Disciplines. Furthermore, we chose to analyze the determinants according to the categories stipulated by Santos (2007): the presence, identity, standards and objectives; programmatic profile, profile faculty and student profile; teaching materials. Other authors such as Almeida Filho (2008), Araújo, Freitas and Lopes (2008), Azzi (1994), Bastos (2006), Bourdieu (2007) (2004), Carvalho and Gatti Júnior (2011), Gatti Júnior and Pintassilgo (2007), Gatti Júnior and Inácio Filho (2005), Guiraldelli Jr. (1994), Nagle (1974), Nóvoa (1994), Nunes (1996), Roballo (2007), Romanelli (1996), Saviani (2007), Segers et al (1995) and Tanuri (2000) were also key to the development of this thesis. The presence and historical trajectory of the discipline of History of Education at the Colégio Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio can be understood taking into account contextual aspects, institutional, ideological and pedagogical intrinsically related to the genesis, function and operation of discipline within the curriculum, covering purposes prescribed and real purposes. As part of a course aimed at normal course students in a Catholic confessional institution, discipline takes basically two functions related to education as an instrument of indoctrination Catholic, and education, as inventory of pedagogical ideals, major educational events developed throughout history.

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Throughout this study we sought a better understanding of the legal directions about the school and brazilian miner from implantation to the present, as well as identify and understand the dimensions and implications for the teaching work in the teaching and learning developed in Teaching Medium Public Schools Uberlândia/MG, Brazil, in 2010. We used the quantitative-qualitative approach, and the population was composed of students, teachers and administrators from seven of the 26 state schools. These were selected on the criterion of general averages obtained for each school in the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM) of 2009, three grades above average with the municipality, and four with scores below average. It begins with the presentation and discussion of the historical facts of the educational policy of the school at national and state levels, as well as data about the evolution of access to secondary education and its consequences in terms of demand in conjunction with the notions of quality of education, highlights the scale of the problem of teaching quality by analyzing the results of ENEM and its repercussions in Brazil. Continues with discussions about the expected functions of school managers, teachers and students of this teaching modality. In the second chapter is the results and discussions with the presentation of didactic and pedagogical conditions of managers, teachers and high school students. It is noticed that schools continue as the same system structure, underdeveloped and with an incipient school culture to meet the needs and desires of adolescents and young adults. It was observed in most schools, lack of zeal and dedication in preparing the PPP and controversies over the documents. Lack of investment in human and physical part of schools. Only two schools with good infrastructure are the most needed renovations and purchase equipment. Most live in small rooms, poorly ventilated and with frequent noise, lack of teaching materials, laboratories and audiovisual materials. All libraries have in place, but some with little structure and decent small and old. The minority offer science labs and computer effectively, and they have restricted access to the internet, which was one of the biggest complaints of the students. Thus, we witness a mass education, which ensures precariously secondary school access to the expansion of secondary education, however, unrelated to the interests of students with physical and pedagogical conditions precarious, with their uncompromising and quality purposes. With regard to education professionals need greater investment in professional development, both with regard to remuneration more worthy as the promotion of fitness and improvement of working conditions, and the initial and continuing training of these. Therefore this study could observe the contradictions and inequalities of school spaces in giving students opportunities to acquire cognitive skills, prepare them for life in aspects related to work, social life, and even the development of personal skills. Much data have been mentioned, and there is much to be thought, reflected, analyzed and researched. We conclude by drawing attention to the new dimension of the struggle for the right to quality education for this level of education and presenting the theoretical and practical challenges that must be overcome.

This work aims to analyze, in the republican period, the primary school, from the History of Education compared to, in the configuration educational policy Maranhão state, mining, and Mato Grosso, in the period from 1889 to 1930, by means of the messages of government and, still, the progress of educational reforms, the organization of primary education, developed in the three states - Maranhao, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso - as well as educational policies triggered, in this period. The messages direct speech, the political change of executive power and the administrative procedure of the government, involving analysis, statistics, financial statements, conclamacion, appeals, descriptions, justifications, evaluations, explanation of the goals and aspirations of the political order and administrative. Many republicans were concerned, because the leadership was unsafe, however, the actions should be taken to generate the changes that the country needed to consolidate the values of the new system, for example, to reduce illiteracy rates, however bad agricultural conditions, low quality of labor, the lack of infrastructure, the precariousness of road network and the lack of schools. In Maranhão, in Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, the school alone was the educational institution predominant, intended for primary education. However, this modality school for not presenting the qualitative results desired, was the target of criticism from various social segments. In smaller numbers, the school groups, considered educational institutions of quality, needed for its creation and maintenance of high investments soaking up the public coffers. The research also compares the differences of primary school graduate in the Republican Period, between the three states through the History of Education.The institutionalisation of primary school in their methods - isolated school, school gathered, school model and school group - occurred in the beginning of the Republic. The school groups particularly in relation to the primary school as public policy, aimed at the possibilities, the characteristics of public education and the involvement of the pedagogical practices in the process and intraescolar extraescolar. In republican discourse, there is a new ideology: the construction of school groups, such as school model or differentiated, with appearance of superiority. Were the innovative basis in primary education-brazilian school, together with the other arrangements, such as the school alone, hegemonic quantitatively, he primary education enabled perceive the relations between the republican politics and state, the diffusion and the modernisation of primary schools in three states - Maranhao, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso. The governments they entailed the creation of better conditions for learning, at the same time in which exercised control of the subjects involved in the process. It proposed that the school groups, unlike the isolated schools were constructed and adapted to accommodate a larger number of children. The school groups emerged in the states as projects of public power state and the municipalities have contributed in the deployment of the modality of primary school.

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