THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF THE NORMATIVE BODY EDITED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE MILITARY REGIME

Abstract

In this study we analyzed the professionalization of high school teaching during the 1970s and 1980s after the implementation of Law No. 5,692 of 1971 in the historical context of the military dictatorship established in Brazil in 1964. In the period in question, education was aligned with the demands of the market, as well as with the needs of capital, demanding minimally qualified labour to operate the national industries, but also of the transnationals that were, at this time, in a process of expansion, in the new perspective of transnationalization imposed by the process of globalisation. For this objective, we will make an analysis of the main legal norms that deal with the subject of the professionalization of the secondary education, current secondary education. This is a qualitative approach research in which we make use of documental and bibliographical analysis. The selected sources were opinions, decrees, ordinances, and laws that regulate high school education. To understand the object of study, we question ourselves: How did the professionalization of high school teaching take place through the normative set sanctioned as a result of Law No. 5692/71? The results of the research indicate that the mandatory and compulsory professionalization ofhigh school education caused adhesions and rejections and increased the structural duality of Brazilian education. A decade later, more precisely in 1982, the professionalizing character of the law was removed. This compulsory professionalization of highschool was certainly the greatest defeat of the educational policy of the military dictatorship.