Trabalho e educação: o papel da Escola de Aplicação da Universidade Federal do Pará como certificadora da qualificação profissional na Amazônia Paraense

Abstract

This work is the result of an investigation into the role of Application School of Federal University of Pará- basic teaching school – in young and adult workers‟s Certification of Professional Qualification in Amazon of Pará. It was done in a regime of partnership with social and trade union movements, from the perspective of an integral education. Two experiences were emphasized in the investigation: The Integration Program and the Integrate Project developed by Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), and the Teachers‟s Formation Project, Teaching – High School - of the Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária (Pronera). The work was constituted by bibliographical and documental investigation and it follows the qualitative investigation path from the perspective of the dialetical historical materialism based on the studies of Frigotto (1995, 2005), Machado (1991), Manfredi (1998, 2005), Ramos, (2001, 2009), Araujo (2001), Kuenzer (1998, 2007), Fidalgo, (1999, 2003), among others researchers in the Work and Education Line. The methodological route began with a bibliografical revision, followed by the analyses of the documents filed in the Aplication School and informal conversations with the school teachers. We concluded that the Aplication School contributes to these workers‟s professional qualification focused on people‟s humanization and not on the capital, even though it does not have consciense of these results and it can and should foster experiences in compromised qualification perspective with the amazon workers‟s omnilaterality.