BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRODUCTIVE RESTRUCTURING: REFLECTIONS IN THE DCN OF ENGINEERING COURSES

Abstract

The present study aims to contextualize Brazilian Higher Education permeated by contradictions inherent in the transformations provoked by the productive restructuring, as well as to analyze the reflexes of this process in the National Curricular Guidelines (NCG) of the Engineering Courses. In this sense, the following question emerges as a problem: What are the impacts of productive restructuring on the reconfiguration of Higher Education and how do they shape their refutations in the NCG of the Engineering Courses? For this, methodologically, it is an exploratory study that uses the bibliographical research and the documentary analysis. We conclude that Higher Education serves as a backdrop to camouflage the exploitation and subordination of the worker to the new production system. It is also inferred that the Engineering-oriented DCNs contribute to cementing the ideological matrix of neoliberalism, since its curricular designs end up establishing a close link with the productive sector and corroborating with the light and fragmented formation of a worker at a time more exploited and prepared to adapt to new situations.