The Federal Network of Vocational and Technological Education (Rede Federal de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica) has as a structuring element of its historical-pedagogical identity comprehensive human development in secondary education. This political-educational option has been subject to contradictory measures by various governments, which, through educational reforms, impose curricular changes of both progressive and regressive nature. The Council of Rectors of the Federal Institutes, representing this network before the Brazilian Ministry of Education in recent years, plays a significant role in consolidating its position as a public space for comprehensive human education of social quality. In this article, we analyze the recent role of this historical function of the National Council of Institutions of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (Conselho Nacional das Instituições da Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica) and its negative consequences for the future of vocational and technological education as a whole.
Keywords
Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education; Federal Institutes; High school reform; Integrated High School; Conif