From the speeches regarding technology found in the most comprehensive lines about professional education, it is intended to bring understanding elements of the normative formulations within the scenario of the current National Education Bases and Guidelines Law (law n.º 9.394, as of December 20, 1996). Then it is carried out the speeches analysis regarding technology articulated on a 'technology' of the professional education discussion and proposition speeches and their repercussion in the legal formulation, from bill n.º 1.258/88 up to the resulting final writing that comprises law n.º 9.394, as of December 20, 1996. In conclusion, it is considered the research perspective, of reflexive debate, to build proposals that take into account the professional education as human education and as transforming praxis of the work-technology-profession-education relationships, in the concrete specificity of every situation and within the set of situations. A redemption perspective of the professional education as a fully public policy, aimed at the interests of the majority, the working class.
professional education; work; technology; propositional speech; normative speech