THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORK CATEGORY FOR PROFESSIONALS WHO WORK IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article analyses the importance of the theoretical background of the work category and its contradictions in the capitalist society for the professionals who work in the Technical Professional Education of Medium Level  (TPEML), more specifically with those who develop their activities through the conception of Integrated High School (IHS). The study was based on a bibliographical research, and it had as a goal to reflect on the ways in which the work category is developed in capitalist society and its relevance in the formation of the social being. At first, the study starts from the analysis of work as a creative activity of the human being as a central category of the process of humanization, in order to understand how the transformation of the biological being into a social being occurs through the mediation of labour with nature.  The second moment has as purpose the understanding of how the capitalist mode of production transforms the creativity of work into an activity of alienation through a process that involves the relationship between things, with a predominance of the object over the subject. For the conclusion of the study, there is the reflection that only from the understanding of the contradictions of the labour category in the capitalist production system, it will be possible for the professional of TPEML the understanding of the aims and purposes of the omnilateral conception of the IHS in their teaching practice, since the educational principle of the IHS is developed through the work category.