Curriculum changes at vocational high schools in São Paulo state: from ‘social integration’ to ‘engagement for transformation’

Abstract

This article reviews the curriculum of Vocational High Schools (known then as ‘Ginásios Vocacionais’) in São Paulo State, an experimental educational project developed between 1961 and 1970. We consider the proposition that the legal and theoretical frameworks that guided the curriculum of these schools underwent major changes during their nine years of existence, due to the construction and expansion of the experience, as well as the internal differences that existed within the staff of the Vocational Education Service (SEV), the office that administered the schools. These differences are also associated with the historical context of the 1960s and reveal the singularity of the educational proposal of Vocational High Schools in relation to other curriculum changes that occurred during that period.

Keywords

• História
• escolas vocacionais
• Ginásios Vocacionais
• currículo