Escolas estaduais de educação profissional - a experiência de ensino médio integrado à educação profissional no Ceará a partir de 2008

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the implementation of the State Schools of Professional Education (EEEP), while the State of Ceará public policy for the promotion of integrated supply of high school professional education. This policy, implemented in 2008 during the Cid Gomes government, aimed to respond to the demands of the national agenda about the expansion plan offering integrated Secondary Professional Education (EMI) in the country. The sources used for the development of the research are the official documents on EEEPs as well as the statements of political actors collected from semi-structured interviews. The main theoretical framework are the authors Eduardo Condé Salomão (2011) and Jefferson Mainardes (2006), since the policy was investigated from the cycle-related policies (Agenda, Formulation, Decision, Implementation and Evaluation) approach, and the focused initial four phases: Analysis of national and state historical context that led to the entry of vocational education as the agenda for the discussion of public policy; observation of state political structure which provided the project design professional education in the state of Ceará, as well as the description of the implementation of the State Schools of Professional Education of Ceará, pointing its initial results. Finally, we designed a Plan Educational Action to suggest some strategies for improving political study, based on research findings, among which stood out the structural difficulty in school buildings adapted for the supply of full-time teaching; the challenges to promoting curricular integration; the training of the teaching staff and training in management philosophy (TESE).