AS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS DE ENSINO SUPERIOR TECNOLÓGICO E A QUESTÃO DA RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL NO BRASIL

• Main Authors: Marcus Vinicius de Oliveira Brasil, Maria Engracia Loiola, Mônica Mota Tassigny
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2011-01-01
• Series: Revista Gestão Universitária na América Latina
• Subjects: higher education; technological teaching; public policies; social responsibility
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=319327511013

This article aims to discuss the feasibility of public policies of technological higher education in Brazil and some of its prerogatives to the social responsibility of higher education institutions. In this direction, it was discussed the main public policies for technological education, in particular, highlighting the case of the State of Ceará and the technological possibilities of higher education to be a principle of polytechnic. It was a documentary and a bibliographical research. It is concluded that public policies of technological higher education in our country have advanced training qualified people to the job’s world, but there is still a missing link between theory and praxis of social responsibility that needs to be recovered as a sine qua non condition for the legitimacy of an effective state policy.