Cursos superiores de tecnologia: algumas considerações sobre a construção de sua identidade no mercado de trabalho brasileiro

Abstract

After a decade of this new millennium, it is still possible to see that concepts such as technology, which define this new era, are still not understood within the complexity and seriousness in which they should be. When these concepts define a professional category, its specific performance and its place in the business market, this fact is even more serious making this new professional an obsolete being, poorly understood and marginalized. This is the case of technologists in Brazil, professionals trained by the College Courses on Technology (Cursos Superiores de Tecnologia, CST), being classified in Brazil as higher education courses with a usual duration of 2 to 3 years. The CSTs are a new kind of education existing in Brazil for just over 30 years, and are trying to find their place in the business market and gaining prominence in the media and society only after the year of 2002. However, the CSTs are boycotted not only by society which ignores its rules and characteristics, but also by Institutions of Higher Education and by the Brazilian government, that not only wreck the education of students who opt for this kind of education but also turned them into objects of maneuver and support of neoliberal policies that lead our country since 1990. This article has the purpose of scrutinizing the relations involving the formation of the Brazilian technologist analyzing it from three areas: economic, social and political.