The article discusses the transformations occurred in the labor world, caused by the economy globalization, the technological innovations and by the productive restructuring, focusing on the impact of these transformations on the workers profile and, consequently, on the formative processes. The article focuses specially on the influence of the new market logics on the basic education teachers formation policy. Therefore, it takes as references official documents such as "Referenciais para Formação de Professores", elaborated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and "Parecer nº. 9/2001", by the National Education Council, which discusses the National Curricular Guidelines for the Formation of Basic Education Teachers. Such documents evidence the necessity of changing the traditional models of formation to fit the new market demands, using, for this, more flexible and modern formative models. The analysis of the documents privileges two points that are considered fundamental for the teachers formation in this new scenario: the reflexive formation and the formation by competencies. Both are articulated with the demands of companies and international organisms, which believe in a more practical and instrumental formation, capable of promoting the improvement of the basic education quality.
Technological changes; Formation policy; Reflexive teacher; Formation by competencies