Competência como práxis: os dilemas da relação entre teoria e prática na educação dos trabalhadores

Resumen

Starting from the understanding of the competence category while praxis, the article proposes to analyze what the relationship between theory and practice within the ambit of the flexible accumulation is and how it happens, particularly concerning to the demands from the microelectronics basis, which displaces the need for knowledge of the product to the need for knowledge of the processes, substituting the capacity of doing for the capacity of facing non predicted events. And, right after, it discusses the most appropriate pedagogical procedures for the possible settlement of the relationship between scientific knowledge and laborious practices, what sends us to the methodological presumptions that must orient the elaboration of educational projects for the workers.