High School Education Integrated in the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology and Integral Human Training

Abstract

This article proposes to reflect on the historical and political foundations of Integrated High School (IHS) and on the structural duality in Brazilian education. It aims to discuss the relevance of integral human formation, having work, science, culture and technology as structuring axes of this training. Its paradigm is historical-dialectical materialism in a perspective of human emancipation from society. In the analyses, it is worth mentioning that, as much as capitalist society has no interest in IHS, this is the path we must follow and insist on, in the name of a fairer, egalitarian education for all and with the clarity that both education and work as structuring categories of society will continue to be the object of disputes and ideological clashes. The great challenge is to fight to ensure that the expansion and qualification of the IHS continues to happen and that identifies with the social dynamism of the working class.