Resumo:
The dissertation describes and analyzes the social context, the socio-technical and
educacional adequacy of the academic productions of the doctoral course of the
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPG-EEL) during the period of the
"Federal School of Engineering of Itajubá". Based on the theses defended between
1998 and 2002, the aim is to understand in which quadrants of the technological
perspective approached by Andrew Feenberg the theses of PPG-EEL fall, using the
technological environment of the Brazilian electrical engineering area for this
research. The aim is to identify the technological perspective from which these
academic productions are presented in relation to the construction of scientific
knowledge and the transformation of society. To carry out the work, a descriptiveexploratory
study was carried out, based on the analysis of physical documentary
and textual sources, which enabled a description and classification of the doctoral
theses of the PPG-EEL through the critical theory of technology. Terminologies,
educational approaches and the field of science and technology ideas developed in
the period studied were analyzed.
