ABSTRACT:
Presenting five central themes in the debate about the education-work relationship in Brazil, this paper highlights the foundation over which they are seated. These themes - the human capital theory; school as reproduction; education’s structural duality; the work crisis - gain evidence in the 1970s, founded by a new possibility that emerges from educational discourse: the work world can, or must, impose demands to national school, altering its organization and practices. The thesis defended here circumscribes the object shared by this field and states that the mentioned possibility is precisely what is called education for work.
Keywords:
Education for work; Education-work relationship; School; History of Brazilian education