A implantação de cursos superiores de tecnologia em São Paulo: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

The Brazilian University Education attends an ever growing demand of students from the secondary school. The government, in a certain way, has been taking some measures in order to find a solution to the Education problem, which has been causing several changes in the Educational Institutions that are part of this system, as well as in the legislation that regulates the dynamics of this sector. In such context, a new form of Professional Education emerges, the Technology University Courses. Being searched for continuously by students back in the 70's, they now recover their importance in the Superior Education scenario with a new format based on essential competences so that the student can receive a graduation degree along with a diploma and have a well defined professional role in the labor market, where the competitive advantage is more and more within the scope of its Human Resources. In this regard, this piece of work refers specifically to the implantation of these courses with this new format in the city of São Paulo, commercial center of vital importance in Brazil. In order to reach the objectives of this work, a theoretical bibliographic research was necessary, as well as the study of the present legislation and interviews with the Head People of Private Institutions that have implanted such courses initially and served as experimental cases to make the curricula by competences the way they are made today - in a modular way, with a short duration, low costs for the student and the possibility of a continuity of the studies in matter of Post-Graduation, either Lato or Stricto Sensu. From the results achieved on the interviews and using theoretical foundation as basis, the Technology University Courses, also known as Tecnólogos, represent an extremely important role in the Education and a very important role in the Private Education Institutions, where they found a solution to fill the classrooms that had been threatened after the extinction of Technical Courses in the secondary school.