Higher Technology Courses: Foundations, controversies and challenges

The theme of this work is Higher Technology Courses in Brazil. It is developed in the ‘Educational processes and their foundations’ line of research. The interest in technological courses identified in academia and educational policies, the observation that higher education in Brazil has always been aimed at the elite, the increased demands of the labour market and the influence of neoliberal thinking, the increased supply of vocational training, which led to the implementation of higher technology courses, among the various vocational training courses in the educational system, are all aspects that motivated the choice of theme for this research. However, over time, technological courses have been and are being developed more and more for the market, encouraged by the world's major financial backers. However, based on the importance of this professional training, we are thinking about how to overcome the dilemma between serving the market and meeting the professional development that technological work requires, against the backdrop of seeking to understand and criticise the education that has historically been reserved for the working class.