A história da educação profissional e tecnológica no território do Amapá: a Escola Técnica de Comércio - ETCA (1949 – 1961)

Abstract

The welfare character of professional education, a striking feature in our history, begins in colonial Brazil, after all, the prejudice with manual work, made physical jobs left for those who had no option. With an air of a Republic, Brazil goes through several transformations. Vocational education went from assisting to being responsible for strengthening sectors of the economy, and this would only be effective with workers qualified for a profession. The research aimed to present, historically (between 1949 and 1961), the role of the Technical School of Commerce (ETCA) in the EPT of Amapá, as well as its contribution to the implementation of this teaching modality. The educational product, in the form of a webpage, was designed, based on the research, to preserve the material collected, as well as to serve as a means of consultation. The research carried out was of a documentary nature, using public collections. 4,289 files were photographed, coming from EE Gabriel de Almeida Café, from the Official Press of Amapá, and from the Elcy Lacerda State Library. Of these, 2,123 files were used, dating between 1949 and 1961. The implementation of ETCA, driven by the country's industrialization policy in the Vargas era, and the consequent attempt to develop the territory (expansion), essentially aimed at generating literate and technical workforce. The duality in education gained a specificity of the territory, as there was now a new social class, of middle income, whose children were not able to study outside the territory, but were able to take paid technical courses. The federal institutes (IFs), when implemented, made the offer of differentiated courses accessible throughout the country.