Under the theme set for the debate and in line with the approach developed by the speaker - Young and adult workers' quality education: collaboration and the National System of Education - I propose to examine, in a historical perspective, education policies for young and adult workers, from the first Republican governments to the present, discussing the relations between social change and educational changes, the presence or absence of workers in this process, as well as the conceptions of work and education, and of their relations, which orient policies at their different moments and social conjunctures.
Youth and adult education; Professional education; High school; Integrated education; Social change and educational change