From PLANFOR to the PNQ: a comparative analysis on the Qualification Plans in Brazil

Name: PATRÍCIA EBANI PEIXOTO
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 09/05/2008
Advisor:

Name	Role
PAULO NAKATANI	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
PAULO NAKATANI	Advisor *

Summary: This paper aims at assessing the professional qualification plans of FHC and Lula’s government under a comparative perspective, identifying the existing connections between the political-ideological determinants and the formulation of these policies. The debate about this subject privileges the changes in the Brazilian context after the 80’s, highlighting the scenery of the 90’s and the first of Lula’s government, time in which PLANFOR and PNQ were structured in the perspective of problems coping resulted from the labor market. Child education starts to be regarded as a strategic element for the promotion of competitiveness and country development. We have inquired into the strategies used by the policies with a distinction for the conceptions, objectives and elements which guide the actions, form of organization, target public and projects of monitoring and assessment, emphasizing the analysis of similarities and divergences between the plans. We understand that the qualification is developed inside a contradictory process between capital and work in which the own logic of the system imposes difficulties and limitations to the reach of this policy. Therefore, in this study we have posed some questions such as: are the strategies of professional qualifications developed by PLANFOR and PNQ capable of coping with problems resulted from the changes which have taken place in the labor market, especially the unemployment phenomenon and the raise of precariousness of work conditions? Is the qualification constituted as a strategic element for the promotion of competitiveness and the country development? What are the political-ideological conceptions which are presented in the plans of the federal government qualification?

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