Aiming to maintain a dialogue with the conception of Adriana Geisler, which analyze the meaning of citizenship in Brazil today and propose " identifying to which concept of citizenship the notion of polytechnic is affiliated" the text tries to contribute with the composition of Brazilian social reality structure, showing some reflections as assumed by social rights and the process of governmental policies to establish its totalities in the country. In this sense, the text considers, at first, the meaning of permanent education as a collective social right, and in continuation, since alteration on the nature and performance of the State in the 1990's, it analyzes the changes on the aspects of social rights and public policies of education and work. Finally, it recovers the discussion on polytechnic education trying to measure it, as well as its importance, on current conditions of the education fo Brazilian population.
education; work; professional education; public policies; citizenship