TRENDS OF SCIENCE PRODUCTION ABOUT TECHNOLOGY HIGHER COURSES IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The article analyzes the scientific production on the Technology Higher Courses (THCs) published in five Brazilian repositories from 1978 to 2017. Since the mid-2000s, in the midst of educational reforms undertaken in Brazil, there has been an increase in the number of THCs. At the same time, also it realizes increased the scientific literature on the origin and development of this academic degree. The purpose of the article is to explain the main trends in scientific production about THCs in Brazil. 666 scientific works have been found that mention the THCs, but among these there were only 476 works whose object of analysis are the THCs. From the analysis of these works, it was found that most of them are produced in the Southeast and South of the country, by researchers linked to public institutions of higher education and can be classified into 3 categories of approach: 1) pedagogical aspects of THCs; 2) THCs policy and regulation; and 3) Professional aspects of the implementation and development of THCs. Studies dealing with the pedagogical aspects of THCs are the most numerous. It was noticed that the analyzed literature expresses two distinct and antagonistic conceptions of human formation: the conception interested in training the worker to meet market demands and the conception of training the worker in a unitary and omnilateral perspective.