A CONCEPÇÃO DE CURRÍCULO NOS CURSOS SUPERIORES DE TECNOLOGIA

This work integrates the studies related to the conceptions of curriculum to those of technological professional education of higher level materialized in the technology courses. The study is justified by the growing offer of technological undergraduate courses at the national level and of their curricular programs aimed at training specialized workers at higher level, identified as “technologists”. The text aims to analyze the curricular conceptions that base technological higher education today. Through the qualitative research approach, the construction of this text is based on already consolidated works of authors who debate curricular issues and technological professional education, as well as in the legal provisions that guide and regulate the offer of these courses. It is evident that the curriculum dedicated to the training of technologists, favors technological and practical knowledge, selected based on the identity or professional profile required by jobs and the power of the market in defining the purposes that these courses assume.