# Maintaining vocational education: strategies of a public institution aimed at adolescents in social vulnerability

## TL;DR

This paper examines strategies used by a Brazilian institution to maintain vocational education for socially vulnerable adolescents from 1990 to 1997.

## Contribution

It highlights how political and administrative strategies led to the restructuring of educational spaces for marginalized youth.

## Key findings

- Workers' strategies led to the restructuring of the Centro Piloto Quintino into the Comprehensive Learning Center.
- The Healthcare Professional Unit's courses were maintained through these strategies.
- The space was redefined to reduce the stigmatization of socially vulnerable adolescents.

## Abstract

to analyze the political and administrative strategies for maintaining the courses at the Healthcare Professional Unit and the Hospital da Criança e do Adolescente Study Center of the Brazilian Center for Childhood and Adolescence Foundation.

a historical study, with sources consisting of journalistic articles and official documents, in addition to eight participants. Data were collected from May to December 2021 and analyzed based on articles on vocational education and educational policies at national and state levels. The time frame covers the years 1990 to 1997.

strategies adopted by workers culminated in changes at the Centro Piloto Quintino, with the structuring of the Comprehensive Learning Center, and the maintenance of courses at the Healthcare Professional Unit.

the strategies resulted in the restructuring and redefinition of the space that was previously intended to stigmatize adolescents in situations of social vulnerability.

analisar as estratégias políticas e administrativas para manutenção dos cursos da Unidade Profissionalizante da Área da Saúde e do Centro de Estudos do Hospital da Criança e do Adolescente da Fundação Centro Brasileiro para Infância e Adolescência.

estudo histórico, com fontes constituídas por matérias jornalísticas e documentos oficiais, além de oito participantes. Os dados foram coletados de maio a dezembro de 2021e analisados com base em artigos sobre educação profissionalizante e políticas educacionais de nível nacional e estadual. O recorte temporal compreende os anos de 1990 a 1997.

estratégias adotadas por trabalhadores culminaram em mudanças no Centro Piloto de Quintino, com a estruturação do Centro de Educação Integral, e na manutenção dos cursos da Unidade Profissionalizante da Área da Saúde.

as estratégias resultaram na reestruturação e ressignificação do espaço que antes se destinava a estigmatizar adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social.