Desvelando o PRONATEC: uma avaliação política do programa

Abstract

The research presented here arose as a general policy goal perform an evaluation of the National Program for Access to Technical Education and Employment (Pronatec) to elucidate their ideological principles, values, objectives and theoretical and political foundations. Based on theories of O'Connor (1977), which emphasizes the two major functions of the capitalist state, which is the accumulation and legitimation, broke the assumption that the ideological principles, rationale, goals and values Pronatec are mainly linked to the legitimation function of the capitalist state. In conducting the research was taken by primary reference Figueiredo and Figueiredo (1985), to emphasize that the political assessment is sought to study the contents of certain public and Souza (2013a) policy to propose that this type of evaluation should reveal the ideology, theory and the explicit and implicit goals of public policy. With respect to the research method, we tried to make some connections between the policy evaluation of public policies and the dialectical method from Kosik (1976). Following the specific focus of policy evaluation of public policies, it was used as a data source Pronatec official documents, as well as speeches and some data about the program. For data analysis, we resorted to the content analysis from Bardin (1977) and the techniques of interpretation of Foucault (1997). The survey results showed that Pronatec presents the implicit goal of legitimizing the Capitalist State primarily through courses FIC (Initial and Continuing Education Workers) and, moreover, manifests itself in some measure the performance of the function of accumulation (with the necessary caveats of which was theorized by O'Connor, 1977) through the implementation of the program by calling the public-private partnership. Another potential issue that policy evaluation program allowed point is that Pronatec accentuates the social duality while reinforcing the separation between education and vocational