TVET in Brazil: Historical Notes, Contradictions and Current Political Challenges
CERE Expert Seminar Series 2025-2026 ‘TVET Systems in BRICS Countries: Landscape and Contexts’
Fifth CERE Seminar
TVET in Brazil: Historical Notes, Contradictions and Current Political Challenges
This seminar will explore the main historical characteristics of TVET in Brazil and its current legal and regulatory organization. It will demonstrate the national provision of TVET, with emphasis on the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education, the main entity responsible for this policy. The presentation will focus on debates about competing theoretical conceptions of TVET, especially "qualification as a social relation" and the "competency model", considering the link between this modality and basic education, particularly high school, a stage of schooling required for the training of technical workers. Finally, it will observe contradictions regarding the complex nature of TVET in Brazil and the trend towards precarious work.
Speaker:
Dr. Marise Ramos, Professor at the Faculty of Education and the Postgraduate Program in Public Policies and Human Development at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) & Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ)
Date: June 26, 2026
Time: 12:00 GMT
Format: Online
We warmly invite you to be part of this conversation.
Let’s build a new space for collaborative, grounded, and comparative thinking in education.
TVET in Brazil: Historical Notes, Contradictions and Current Political Challenges
This seminar will explore the main historical characteristics of TVET in Brazil and its current legal and regulatory organization. It will demonstrate the national provision of TVET, with emphasis on the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education, the main entity responsible for this policy. The presentation will focus on debates about competing theoretical conceptions of TVET, especially "qualification as a social relation" and the "competency model", considering the link between this modality and basic education, particularly high school, a stage of schooling required for the training of technical workers. Finally, it will observe contradictions regarding the complex nature of TVET in Brazil and the trend towards precarious work.
Speaker:
Dr. Marise Ramos, Professor at the Faculty of Education and the Postgraduate Program in Public Policies and Human Development at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) & Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (FAPERJ)
Date: June 26, 2026
Time: 12:00 GMT
Format: Online
We warmly invite you to be part of this conversation.
Let’s build a new space for collaborative, grounded, and comparative thinking in education.
26 June 2026
