As we bring to the public the first issue of volume six of Trabalho, educação e saúde, we are pleased to mention that, in January, this periodical was selected to be indexed in one more database, namely, LILACS-Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences. This is favorable in various ways, such as increasing the periodical's circulation, further ensuring our international insertion in the academic publishing scenario. Following the example of the great majority of periodicals, our political and social function is to divulge scientific knowledge, constituting a practice of reflection on science that aims to contribute to the education of workers in general and health workers in particular. As was stated in previous numbers, the télos of this periodical's conception is "to prevent thought from succumbing to the fetish of the closed totality, the alienated social life, the various forms that domination assumes in our time". The texts collected in this number share in this purpose, thus helping to build the diverse currents of critical thought. The essay Notes on inflections of the Critical Theory in technical training and education in health, by Isabel Brasil Pereira, relates the legacy of Critical Theory to the problem of education for the emancipation and training of health service workers, in the context of unequal and combined capitalism. Based on the work of Theodor Adorno, which addresses explicitly the difficulties of emancipation, the author reflects on the principle of "educate for the difficult task" in the training of health workersthrough a society marked by heteronomy-in counterpoint to a "semitraining" process promoted in the scope of the "administered society". Roberta Lobo's article, Technology and challenges of contemporary Brazilian education, considers the conceptual discussion on technology. From the standpoint of the relationship between education, culture and technology, the study focuses on the changes in the epistemological status of education in the 20 th and 21 st centuries. With the theoretical reference centered on the thinking of Herbert Marcuse, particularly his concepts of "critical rationality" and "technological rationality", the author analyzes the possibilities of education preparing young people to participate in the world of culture by exploring the historical and aesthetic imagination, in regard to audiovisual production. Nursing assistants and technicians in the Family Health: sociodemographic profile and qualification needs is the title of the article by Francisco Rosemiro G. Ximenes Neto et al. The authors carried out an exploratorydescriptive study about the nursing technicians who worked in the Family Health Strategy in some municipalities of the state of Ceará, from March to April of 2005, and their qualification needs. The article Suffering in teaching: the case of the public network teachers of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, by Maria Márcia Bicalho Noronha,
The second edition of the fifth year of Trabalho, educação e saúde highlights the historical processes involved in professionalizing health care, a field about which it is publishing three articles in this issue. Márcia Boen and Lúcia Emília Nuevo, in "Trabalho e formação profissional do atendente de consultório dentário e do técnico em higiene dental" ("Work and professional qualification of dentist office attendants and dental hygiene technicians"), point to the hurdles imposed on collective representation, discuss the lack of social prestige, and show how low professional credibility lingers on after the person is qualified and that this, in turn, indicates that regulating the category may lead to its legitimation. "O agente comunitário de saúde no âmbito das políticas voltadas para a atenção básica: concepções do trabalho e da formação profissional" ("The community health agent in the ambit of the policies aimed at basic health care: work and professional qualification concepts"), by Márcia Valéria Morosini, Anamaria Corbo, and Cátia Guimarães, meanwhile, examines the political processes-including the category's organized movement-regulations and legislation regarding these workers' professionalization, and highlights the challenges imposed on effectively implementing their technical schooling. Monica Vieira, in "Trabalho, qualificação e a cons-trução social de identidades profissionais nas organizações públicas de saúde" ("Work, qualification, and the social construction of professional identities in public health organizations"), analyzes the changes that are currently being made in the profession of a very large occupational group in the health area-administrative agents-, and shows that multiple variables are involved in understanding a worker's way of being, including their professional qualifications, job ties, professional performance sector, how long they have been in the area, and how their activity is organized. Two articles are published on professional qualification in health care. "Projeto de extensão universitária: um espaço para formação profissional e promoção da saúde" ("University extension project: a venue for professional qualification and health promotion"), by José Roberto da Silva Brêtas and Sônia Regina Pereira, deals with theoretical and practical issues involved in an articulated teaching, assistance, and research project carried out by the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). In the Health Care Promotion field, the project focuses on issues related to the body and to sexuality. Based on educational activities, it involves the university's undergraduate and graduate students and is undertaken among elementary and high school students in the Embu municipality (São Paulo). "Educação profissional em saúde: reflexões sobre a avaliação" ("Professional health education: reflections on assessments"), by Denise Antunes de Azambuja Zocche, discusses competency-based evaluations in technical nursing education, exploring its challenges and proposals as strategies to integrate all parties
The first issue in the fifth year of Trabalho, educação e saúde inaugurates a change in the journal's periodicity, from biannual to triannual publication. We believe that this will contribute to both produce and disseminate knowledge in health care education and practice, since it expedites publication, promoting the visibility of a larger volume of scientific production in the field.This issue features four papers on the formation of health care professionals, three in the Articles section and one in the Report section. The article "The discourse of bioethics in the formation of the health care professional subject" analyses the insertion of ethical and bioethical questionings in different professional educational courses. Based on documental research, conducted in the nursing and medicine courses of four federal universities of southern Brazil, the investigation concludes that such issues constitute both present and productive knowledge, yet they are currently reduced to a set of decontextualised formulations. The article "Popular education and the formation of middle-level health care professionals" by José Ivo Pedrosa investigates the political and ethical principles of popular education, considering it as a means for institutionalising new possibilities of autonomy and of transcending the view of the other (patient) as technical object. The third article, by Georgia Sobreira dos Santos Cêa, Luiz Fernando Reis and Solange Conterno, "Profae and the neoliberal logic: close relations" analyses the main educational policy for middle-level professionals developed by the Ministry of Health − the Professionalisation Project for Nurse Practioners, examining its political and economic instrumentality and the actual possibility of the project reverting the formative deficiencies in the field. In the section Report Lilian Koifman and Regina Henriques describe the implementation of the project EnsinaSUS, which brings together teaching, development, research and documentation activities in order to build up integrality in health care. EnsinaSUS is developed by the
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