Teaching in technical education in Brazil and Portugal

ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparative study on the organization of professional secondary education in Brazil and Portugal. The objective was to understand how professional courses are organized and structured in the scope of formal education, as well as to describe the requirements of access to teaching, specifically in the vocational curricular components. This qualitative research, whose corpus consisted of legislations, as well as publications from database research on teacher education for professional education in Brazil and Portugal. As a result, it can be affirmed that teacher training for Vocational Education is not instituted in the practice of institutions in either country, with legal support in Portugal and a decline in the valorization of pedagogical in Brazil.