As instituições integrantes da Rede Federal (38 Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia; 2 Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica e o Colégio Pedro II), apoiadas por seus docentes, técnicos-administrativos, alunos e demais voluntários, uniram suas habilidades e conhecimentos científicos e tecnológicas a sua sensibilidade e responsabilidade diante do drama social e da necessidade de enfrentar o maior problema de saúde pública deste século, a fim de minimizar seus impactos nocivos à vida humana nos diferentes e peculiares territórios de seu âmbito institucional. Nosso excelente modelo de educação gratuito, público e socialmente referenciado vem realizando uma miríade de iniciativas, tanto com recursos públicos quanto com doações privadas, produzindo e desenvolvendo dispositivos tecnológicos para ajudar e apoiar a população brasileira no combate à COVID-19, além de implementar um conjunto de ações sociais solidárias. Em grandes e pequenas cidades, bem como em lugares remotos onde os governos federal, estadual e municipal muitas vezes não chegam, as instituições da Rede Federal cumpriram seu papel, para que os profissionais de saúde fizessem seu trabalho, os pequenos produtores rurais pudessem comercializar seus produtos, e os alunos e suas famílias não morressem de fome. Este livro digital “Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica no Combate à COVID-19” detalha diversas atividades realizadas entre março e maio, como a produção de álcool 70%, a fabricação de Equipamentos de Proteção Individual (EPIs), além de consertos de ventiladores mecânicos e o desenvolvimento de aplicativos para monitorar a evolução da pandemia. Apesar das dificuldades e incertezas dos últimos quatro meses, podemos afirmar que os investimentos em educação, ciência e tecnologia são essenciais para as transformações estruturais de um país, em benefício de suas instituições e de sua população.

Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth is a new report focusing on the challenge of economic engagement among the Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast aging population, Brazil’s greatest economic opportunity is to increase its labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth economic disengagement, while at school and at work. Today, close to half of the Brazilian youth aged 15-29 years old is not fully economically engaged, because they are neither working nor studying, are studying in schools of poor quality, or are working in informal and precarious jobs. The report shows how the youth prospects in the labor market are dimmed by policies favoring existing workers over new entrants; in addition, it shows how youth are often ill equipped to meet an increasingly challenging labor market. The report suggests new education, skills, and jobs policy changes that Brazil could prioritize moving forward, so that it can take advantage of the last wave of its demographic transition. The report discusses in particular depth policies aiming to increase learning and reduce school dropouts in upper secondary education, and labor market policies that aim to support more effective and faster youth transitions from school to work.

This book provides insight into the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education across a broad range of countries. It contains studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices. An overarching introduction embeds the content of the book into the current global context of Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This is the first substantial volume on the topic in 30 years.

This edited volume presents a structured approach to a new lean education curriculum, implemented for the education of engineers, managers, administrators as well as human resources developers. The authorship comprises professors and lecturers, trainers and practitioners who educate future professionals in Lean Thinking principles and tools. This edited book provides a platform for authors to share their efforts in building a Body of Knowledge (BoK) for Lean Education. The topical spectrum is state-of-the-art in this field, but the book also includes a glimpse into future developments. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing valuable insight for scholars with an interest in Lean Education.

This six-volume handbook covers the latest practice in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It presents TVET models from all over the world, reflections on the best and most innovative practice, and dozens of telling case studies. The handbook presents the work of established as well as the most promising young researchers and features unrivalled coverage of developments in research, policy and practice in TVET.

Vocational education and training (VET) can be difficult to define since it is set in a turbulent and volatile environment marked by national and regional specificities. It can be delivered at different levels and by a variety of providers, including community colleges, colleges of further education, polytechnics and universities, as well as, importantly, private providers. This collection reflects the shifting and often messy conceptualisations of VET. On one level VET can be associated with the education and training of craft/skilled workers, or of those who are being prepared for a particular occupational destiny and specific position in the labour market. In this instance, notions of skill, knowledge and dispositions are significant. On another level, it can raise questions over power and class formation, in addition to the way in which these are mediated or intersect with race and gender. Moreover, there are important political questions addressing the significance of VET in furthering social cohesion and economic regeneration in times of austerity when neoliberalism is hegemonic. The chapters in this book are not all of a piece, but each in its turn raises important questions about VET, its relationship to the economy, as well as its global setting. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.