2014-07-292011-02-082007-05-18COSTA, Manoel Pereira da. Certainties and uncertainties of the professional education for abilities. 2007. 160 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Humanas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2007.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1176This thesis is situated at the research line: work, education and social moviments. Since it, it was investigated the multiple accepts that the term competence assumes at the professional education field. The investigation problem was to understand the bond that the professional education by competence has with the work world and if it is joined to this last one. The thesis bases on the pedagogy theory of the competencies with its certainties and uncertainties, so the work as a educative principal makes us to think again about the links between the productive life and culture, with the historical constitution, the autonomy, freedom and emancipation of the human being. The approach with the study object occurred by a wide literature review, consults to documents and publications about the subject. It also occurred by the analysis of a corporation of the professional education, SENAI National Service of Industrial Learning (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial), and its methodologies, that has as reference the Goiás SENAI. The aim was to discuss about the certainties and uncertainties that constitute the curriculum by competencies as elements of strategic mediations for both attitude and methodological changes related to the teachers and students acts. We concluded that a true background by competence just will be realized, at the scholar everyday life, if it propitiate to the students access conditions to a knowledge that goes beyond the scholar books, favoring them the development of the investigation spirit and the capacity to solve problemsapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoEducação profissionalMundo do trabalhoCompetênciaProfessional EducationWork WorldCompetenceCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAOTese