Polytechnics and theoretical-methodological appropriations in the integrated high school of the IF Goiano – Campus Ceres

Abstract

This paper has used a literature review aiming to bring a historical clipping of both, the professional and technological education network and the concept of polytechnic, exercised by the Ceres Campus of the Goiano Federal Institute, Goiás State, Brazil. The history of the Campus Ceres is marked by initially agrarian education expanded into different areas, offering a public, free, and quality professional education for the Vale do São Patrício population. The Federal Institutes represent an unitary and polytechnic school concept of omnilateral training. Such characteristics express that education has the power to transform and emancipate citizens who would not have other opportunities if not for the public policies applied to education. The conclusions show that, despite the long history of a dual Brazilian education, IFs break such barriers with a polytechnic school, promoting institutional actions and policies that guarantee an integrative education, aligning social, cultural and political actions with propaedeutic teaching and professional education.