Political assessment of the Federal Institutes of Education in development: between the market and the excluded

Abstract

It examines the meanings defined in the creation of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology, it is inquiring about its direction and established organizational mechanism to achieve it. The procedure is a political appraisement of this transformation, based on Figueiredo and Figueiredo (1986) and Arretche (1998) and making use of legislation and government plans founders, analyzed by content type “inductive-constructive”. It was found that the Institutes are dedicated to the development understood as much as economic stability, the central “restrictive institutional convention”, as income generation opportunities, indicator of the “neo-developmentalist convention.” The medium for this is, mainly, the provision of professional education courses and toplevel defined as the potential local and regional decentralized units of autonomous organizations. Thus, what drives the creation of Institutes is the link between qualification of handiwork and development, now anchored in the idea of growing productivity and attitudes such as entrepreneurship and cooperative system.