A produção do conhecimento sobre Educação Profissional no Portal de Periódicos da Capes: a configuração do campo científico

Abstract

This article takes part in the Postgraduate studies in Professional Education Program of the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte and aims to comprehend the historical setting of the Professional Education (EP) as a scientific field starting from the analysis of articles of the Brazilian authors in national and international scientific journals. Therefore, it does mapping yields on the Capes Journal Gateway available until 2014, identifies the authors and the scientific journals which publish in the EP field and goes along with the analysis of the thematic associations leading to understanding of the scientific field configuration. On its based is found the discussion about scientific field starting from understanding of Bourdieu (1994, 2004) declaring itself as a universe with a separated and autonomous logic, building a social world with relation of power and argument ones. On its base is also found the discussion of configuration from Elias´ point of view (1970) recognized as a dialectical movement of the reality built by interdependencies of individuals who are interpenetrate each other. It is featured as a survey research and has an exploratory nature using quantitative and qualitative approaches. Its metric study is applied by Bibliometry to check the trends and the growth of knowledge in the field and the content analysis is based in Bardin (2011) with the categorical technique to describe the content of the productions. For Data processing the software of qualitative analysis NVivo has been used. The results obtained the main researchers of the field and their choice for research in co-authorship which composes a cooperation network between them, justified by formal air that enable a chain of relationship between the authors. It shows that the publishing are concentrated in few scientific journals even though it shows high and opposite dispersal index. It introduces seven thematic categories established through the main subjects for the researchers, such as Professional Education for Health, Education and Job, Teacher Training, Curriculum, Public Policy and PROEJA. It explains about subclause in the thematic category. Thus the investigations implemented in the research provided production analysis and propagation of the scientific knowledge about EP, contributing to comprehension of the field configuration of Professional Education in Brazil.