Organicity, institutionality and symbolic dimension of the Federal Institute of Paraná State: an analysis from Pierre Bourdieu's perspective

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the creation of Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology, which inaugurated a new phase in the provision of education by institutions of Professional and Technological Education in Brazil, as established in law n. 11,892, of December 29, 2008, which creates the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education. Methodologically, the article is based on the theory of social fields of Pierre Bourdieu, especially from the concepts of social field, habitus, social capital, cultural capital and scientific capital. Thus, based on documents, legislation and support in the literature on the subject, it is noted that there is a gap between the predicted in the creation project and in the legislation on the Federal Institutes, of social inclusion and democratization of public education, and the concrete teaching performance marked by the overestimation and overvaluation of the academic profile something common in the traditional university careers, but that installs like an ‘academicism’ in the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology.