2020-07-012020-07-012020-07-012019https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/prefix/1613This dissertation, under the title "Professional Education and Social Insertion: Edvaldo Brandão Correia State College, Salvador / BA", aims to understand how - in a public school, a popular neighborhood -, the Professional Technical Education of dynamics of student training for their social insertion. For this, the theme is related to a pedagogical experience, - based on historical-critical pedagogy and having, through Environmental Education, based on ecological economics, working on several areas of knowledge, linked to the selective waste collection in the College in study. The accomplishment of the activity had the involvement and commitment of a group, of the 4th year, of the Technical Course of Administration of Companies Integrated to High School, in this College, located in the district of Cajazeira IV, Salvador / Ba. These students acted as mediators, with the intention of awakening the sensitivity of the subjects, who are part of the school community of the College, regarding the treatment and destination of solid waste, generated by the activities of the School. Several activities and pedagogical practices weredeveloped, aimed at behavior changes regarding the management and destination of waste. The ecological economy, associated with historical-critical pedagogy, bases the interpretation of the results of the engagement of students and teachers, in the process of transforming the environment, contributing to the generation of positive attitudes, for the collective good of the school community. The results showed that, by developing activities that point to more dynamic forms of pedagogical work, - favoring challenging situations of knowledge construction, through the problematization of themes of the student's daily life -, they contribute to the reinventing of young people, leaving the periphery of knowledge production and becoming the center of the process, in their social practices, as subjects of their own history and as a citizen, favoring their social insertion in the condition of young people in formation. practices weredeveloped, aimed at behavior changes regarding the management and destination of waste. The ecological economy, associated with historical-critical pedagogy, bases the interpretation of the results of the engagement of students and teachers, in the process of transforming the environment, contributing to the generation of positive attitudes, for the collective good of the school community. The results showed that, by developing activities that point to more dynamic forms of pedagogical work, - favoring challenging situations of knowledge construction, through the problematization of themes of the student's daily life -, they contribute to the reinventing of young people, leaving the periphery of knowledge production and becoming the center of the process, in their social practices, as subjects of their own history and as a citizen, favoring their social insertion in the condition of young people in formation.Acesso AbertoEducação profissionalPedagogia histórico-críticaEducação ambientalColeta seletivaInserção socialProfessional educationHistorical-critical pedagogyEnvironmental educationSelective collectSocial InsertionDissertaçãoPlanejamento Urbano e Regional/DemografiaTerritorialização e Desenvolvimento Social