Educação profissional técnica na região do Vale do Rio dos Sinos: a situação da inserção profissional dos jovens egressos de cursos técnico-profissionalizantes voltados para o setor coureiro-calçadista

Abstract

The study establishes relationship between education and work, discussing the professional insertion in leather-footwear area. It also discusses the changes which have been happening in the world in the last decades due mainly to the process of globalization of the capitalist economy, which in turn implies a new form of flexible accumulation. It shows a prospect of the Brazilian professional legal education during the last years. It focuses on the study of professional technical education for leather-footwear area in Vale do Rio dos Sinos region. The empirical work was developed among technical schools students who had withdrawn from them: SENAI Technical School, Ildefonso Simões Lopes, SENAI Technical School of Tanning and Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha Technical School Foundation. The research was conducted with a group of 57 former students of technical courses in Footwear, Chemistry and Tanning from the year 2004 to 2007. The study captured the situation of the professional insertion of the students in