THE FACULITIES OF TECHNOLOGY OF SÃO PAULO STATE – BRAZIL: ASSIGNING MEANINGS TO TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND ITS FORMATION MATHEMATICS TEACHERS

The main focus of this work lies in the Faculties of Technology of São Paulo State (Fatec), the history of such institution and the practices developed by its Math teachers. Having as main methodological support the principles of Oral History, the study goes through issues involving methodological assumptions, the narrative sources that support the understandings that come from the analysis of these narrative and other sources, a history of Fatec and some aspects of practices related to teaching and learning mathematics in this institution, focusing more closely on the 1970s and 1990s. Through oral narratives, it is clear that, even today, there is a strong discourse that technological education must be different from the others and, in this way, the banner survives in Fatec that the lessons that interest the courses are those aimed at the world of work, often creating methodological strategies and study materials for the disciplines.