Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control
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| contents | Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control Irene Zapparoli Domenes Ferdinando Zapparoli Vinicius Domenes Educación workforce sequential courses vocational education This research focuses the sequential courses, a way of vocational higher educationintroduced in Brazil in 1999. The aim of this study is to show a general overview onvocational education in Brazil, the development of sequential courses, about the Brazilianuniversities and the representative institutions of category (syndicates, regional counseling,federations and confederations) and the quality control. These courses, with two yearslasting, were implemented to develop in the students older than sixteen the professionalbackground. These sequential courses are in the beginning phases of implementation, sothere are not researches about them yet. However, the interest in sequential courses isincreasing since they were implemented. Data from Ministry of Education point that in1999 were offered one hundred seventy-eight courses in Brazil, meantime in 2002 theoffering was six hundred twelve courses. Although the data show the sequential courseshave been well accepted by Brazilian students, it is not possible to notice, if they fulfill thestudents expectations. The methodology to this work was developed through a bibliographicreview about vocational education. Beyond the students, this research considers otherimportant institutions or involved elements with this pattern of education and sequentialcourses, among them the government, the representative counseling of category, the teachersand the universities. We observed that there are many relevant questions those deserve somereflection related to different parts of these courses such as: a) the lack of links between theMinistry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, which leads to problems of recognition of the sequential courses in the labour market; b) the different points of view of trade unions,with some against and others in favour of this new kind of training workforce in Brazil; andc) the controversy among universities whether it is their role to offer sequential courses inaddition to regular undergraduate degrees, partly because of their concerns regarding thequality of these courses. 2004 artículo científico 1518-5648 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=68470112 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=684 Olhar de Professor application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa Olhar de Professor (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.7 |
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| spellingShingle | Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control Irene Zapparoli Domenes Educación workforce sequential courses vocational education Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control Irene Zapparoli Domenes Ferdinando Zapparoli Vinicius Domenes Educación workforce sequential courses vocational education This research focuses the sequential courses, a way of vocational higher educationintroduced in Brazil in 1999. The aim of this study is to show a general overview onvocational education in Brazil, the development of sequential courses, about the Brazilianuniversities and the representative institutions of category (syndicates, regional counseling,federations and confederations) and the quality control. These courses, with two yearslasting, were implemented to develop in the students older than sixteen the professionalbackground. These sequential courses are in the beginning phases of implementation, sothere are not researches about them yet. However, the interest in sequential courses isincreasing since they were implemented. Data from Ministry of Education point that in1999 were offered one hundred seventy-eight courses in Brazil, meantime in 2002 theoffering was six hundred twelve courses. Although the data show the sequential courseshave been well accepted by Brazilian students, it is not possible to notice, if they fulfill thestudents expectations. The methodology to this work was developed through a bibliographicreview about vocational education. Beyond the students, this research considers otherimportant institutions or involved elements with this pattern of education and sequentialcourses, among them the government, the representative counseling of category, the teachersand the universities. We observed that there are many relevant questions those deserve somereflection related to different parts of these courses such as: a) the lack of links between theMinistry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, which leads to problems of recognition of the sequential courses in the labour market; b) the different points of view of trade unions,with some against and others in favour of this new kind of training workforce in Brazil; andc) the controversy among universities whether it is their role to offer sequential courses inaddition to regular undergraduate degrees, partly because of their concerns regarding thequality of these courses. 2004 artículo científico 1518-5648 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=68470112 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=684 Olhar de Professor application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa Olhar de Professor (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.7 |
| title | Vocational Higher Education and Training in Brazil and the Quality Control |
| topic | Educación workforce sequential courses vocational education |
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