Concepções de educação corporativa : um estudo da produção discente da pós-graduação em duas áreas do conhecimento: educação e administração (1990-2014)

Abstract

This research was carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Education, whose area of concentration is Education and Training, having chosen the Research Line II - Educational Institutions, History, Politics and Management Processes, for it has the historical perspective as the main reference. The object of the research was the concepts of corporate education that emerge from the theses and dissertations produced in stricto sensu postgraduate programs in the areas of Education and Administration, defended from 1990 to 2014. The key-question that guided the course was: What conceptions of corporate education emerge from the considered student production? In order to answer it, to date historical events, describing and grouping them in order to understand this student production, was essential, because according to the scholars who base this study, history is a field of possibilities, a representation of the real. In this sense, the interest of the researcher by a theme and the way in which he will dialogue with it have printed the vision he has at that moment on the questions that were investigated. When using the narrative as a method for the exposition of the syntheses, the objective was to explain the problem of each research analyzed here, contextualizing the object of investigation and seeking to identify the main theoretical references used by the researcher of each study. After syntheses, the analysis of the data in order to know thematic clipping, investigated questions, sources (in their primary and secondary forms), conceptions of corporate education and theoretical and methodological references. It also aimed to highlight similarities and differences between the production of postgraduate programs in Education and Administration. As a result, after analyzing 27 student productions, 15 in the area of Education and 12 in the Administration area, it was evidenced that there were three groups according to the understanding that the authors of the theses and dissertations have about corporate education from the references used: Group 1 ¿ Uncritical conception of corporate education, with the authors that define it as the conceptions of the main theoretical references used; Group 2 ¿ Specialized conception of corporate education, with those who consider the practices of this education as part of a whole, that is, of continuing education; and Group 3 ¿ Critical conception of corporate education, with authors who seek to contextualize it historically, evidencing the financial-economic focus, related to the organizational need to achieve competitive advantage, as opposed to the global formation, linked to the formation of the social being, able of forming reflexive and critical subjects. The reading of the student production, theses and dissertations, in the area of Education and Administration, indicates that the practice of corporate education is still under construction, since many companies were unable to implement in their practices the principles that were established by the main scholars of the subject. These surveys show that the employee training programs carried out by the companies focus on the development of competencies that are linked to the organizational need.