Professional Education Policy: the Professionalized Brazil Program in the school context

Abstract

This paper analyzes the implementation of the Professionalized Brazil Program as a public policy of articulation between High School and Vocational Education in two state schools of the Mossoró/Rio Grande do Norte Education Network. It is grounded on evaluation methodologies through implementation analysis and is guided by the following question: “What actions and measures are required in order to enable the implementation of the Professionalized Brazil Program at the investigated schools?”.The analysis suggests that at Jerônimo Rosado State School, the implementation of the program focused on reforming and expanding the physical structure of the school, reaching the end of 2015 without any classes of the High School Integrated Technical Course in System and Gas. On the other hand, at the Professor Abel Freire Coelho State School, the Technical Course in Occupational Safety is running, although it has some difficulties such as a lack of teachers in specific classes,lack of continued training courses and of specific educational materials in order to guide activities. Therefore, the Program can be considered another policy aimed at the qualification of young people in Brazil bound for discontinuity in the near future,due to conditions shown and discussed in this paper.