2017-11-272017-11-271998-12MIRANDA, Marília Gouvea de. Inteligência e contemporaneidade. Trabalho e Educação, Belo Horizonte, n. 4, p. 63-75, ago./dez. 1998.1516-9537http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/13027This study proposes that gJobalization is not a scientific concept but is an ideology that results from capitalism strllctural crisis. The World Bank is responsible, most of the time, for its broadcasting, imposing premises by structural adjustment. The arguments that tries to jl1stify globalization as a concept are denied. The capitalism prodl1ces polarization between central and peripherícal countries, a process that divides world labor. Therefore, on peripherical countries, vocational education has its scientific basis loosing significance.porAcesso AbertoArtigo