Based on research undertaken by the author, this paper seeks to demonstrate that the relation between work and education in a regime of flexible accumulation is expressed through a different form of materialization of structural duality. Contrary to what is stated in the pedagogical discourse, in this regime of accumulation, duality is intensified by the relation between the market, which excludes the formal workforce to include it again through different forms of precarious use in productive chains, and a system for education and professional qualifications that includes in order to exclude during the process, be it through expulsion or through the precarious nature of pedagogical processes that lead to unqualified certification. From the principle of productive integration that characterizes this regime of accumulation, the categories that constitute what the author terms as denied duality in flexible accumulation are given as an initial proposal to be expanded.
Structural duality; Basic and professional education; Education in flexible accumulation