THE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION (PTE)

Abstract

This article emerge from concerns about the trajectory and potential of Professional and Technological Education (PTE) in Brazil at a crucial moment in human history, the Age of Complexity, in which we have rapid transformations in the productive mode and also severe environmental implications. Some studies show that in a few decades the people will not have only one profession, and the occupation creation and disappearance will be constant. For this reason, there are predictions that by 2050 a new class of people will emerge: the “unemployables”. And, of course, social and economic problems cause environmental problems, which is at the core of sustainability. About this new scenario, since the year 2000, there have been worldwide efforts to achieve sustainable development goals, initially with eight Millennium Goals (MDGs) and, later, with seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, the objective of this article was to defend sustainability practices as a possible way to achieve transdisciplinarity in PTE. Therefore, we discussed the concepts and peculiarities of PTE, transdisciplinarity and sustainability. In an accelerated moment of transformations motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we can think to modified the PTE project, because that way, we will be able to keep up with the rapid changes in technology and economic, social, political and cultural relations. We must take advantage of this unique moment in human history for a remodeling in the PTE contents and methodologies.