THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL PRINCE - THE PEDAGOGICAL THOUGHT OF THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF INDUSTRY

Abstract

This article is a bibliographical survey investigating the work in the field of education, based on the doctoral thesis of José dos Santos Rodrigues, UNICAMP, 1997, with a focus on Professional and Technological Education. The aim here is to analyze the pedagogical thinking of the Brazilian industrial bourgeoisie, based on the proposals of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) during its first 60 years.  The study aims to understand the CNI as the “industrial prince”, the most important fraction of the ideological party of the Brazilian bourgeoisie, using concepts such as the Fordist and flexible accumulation pattern to trace the CNI's pedagogical thinking. This paper aims to analyze the research carried out by the author José dos Santos Rodrigues in the Scielo database by means of a bibliometric survey. The theoretical principles that underpin the investigation deal with the pedagogical thinking of the Brazilian industrial bourgeoisie, highlighting the evolution of the CNI's pedagogical conceptions over time and their relationship with the country's political and economic context. The methodological procedures adopted were bibliographical research. The results achieved indicate that in general terms the study emphasizes the importance of understanding the continuities and ruptures of the CNI's educational proposals, overcoming the lack of historical analysis of the process of building these conceptions. In order to guarantee industrial educational hegemony, the CNI relies on an educational triad: SENAI, SESI e IEL.