O debate da filosofia crítica da tecnologia no ensino médio integrado profissional

Estratégias para uma Educação humana, crítica e libertadora

Abstract

The article presents the first results of a research that seeks to clarify how the concept of technology is perceived and represented by a group of second year students, from the environmental course, from integrated professional high school, from the Federal Institute of Alagoas - IFAL, within the scope of the Graduate Program in Professional and Technological Education - ProfEPT. The objective of the work is to propose a critical reflection of the concept of Technology in the teaching of Philosophy of Integrated High School, aiming to relate the nature of technological choices and their consequences for the environment and for the collective well-being in contemporary societies. The theoretical framework establishes a dialogue between reflections on professional and technological education, integrated high school and the contents presented by the critical philosophy of technology, seeking to clarify the existing relationships between education, work, capital and technology. The research follows a qualitative approach with a socially critical perspective, since its intention is not only to improve the curriculum, but to promote the construction of a more just and democratic world based on stimulating political participation in technological choices. Through the Critical Philosophy of Technology we intend to create spaces for debate on I) the power relations established by capital and technological choices, realizing the benefits of political participation as a source of control of technological development processes; II) Understanding the harms of intensive exploration of nature with the use of unsustainable technologies and changes in the ways of work, education and culture and III) Understanding that technologies are not the artifacts produced by it, but the rational act that it plans and it has intentionality to produce and transform the reality and way of existence of man, and, therefore, something possible for questioning and reflection. If the three objectives above are achieved, we will break with the utilitarian, functional and instrumentalist perception of technology present in the worldview of many EMI students and the critical philosophy of technology will fulfill its function of contributing to a more human, critical, autonomous and liberating formation.