Educação Tecnológica no Brasil Contemporâneo: problematizando a aprendizagem das competências curriculares no campo da tecnologia da informação

Abstract

This dissertation research which is linked to the online Education Culture and Society of the Post Graduate Education course of the Goias Catholic University, had the task of asking about subject courses and the extent of the effectiveness of the construction of learning curricular competencies defined in PPCs. Two technology courses were chosen: GTI Management of Technology Information and TADS Technology and Analysis Development Systems. Both of these courses are taught by IF Campus of Urutaí, Goias. This is an exploratory study that is descriptive and qualative in nature. The theoretical framework was built on legal normative documents and contributions by Levy ( 1999 ), Castells ( 2005 ), Bordieu ( 1978 ), Frigotto ( 2008), Ferretti ( 1999 ), Deluiz ( 2001 ) and Dias ( 2010 ) among others. Sixty five students participated in a survey of this study ( GTI with 32 students, TADS with 33 students ) also used in this study were 11 teachers and 1 coordinator giving classes to the two courses. A semi structured instrumentation of open and closed questions were used from certain specific markers for each individual participant. Most students in the GTI course were women ( 53 % ) and TADS were mostly men ( 64 % ) and ages for both current entries were mostly between 17 to 24 years; of age and attended elementary and secondary education in public schools; The GTI study and work and only TADS study, indicateed that their current occupations were related to their technological courses and their two main reasons for choosing the course were the same: Labor Market and Affinity with the area. The effectiveness of the range of skills for both groups are as follows: GTI, 51 to 75 % and TADS, 67 %. Students pointed out that the main factors for not reaching 100 % was that GTI gave few practical curricular lessons and TADS had a short duration and a change of curriculum for its course. Teachers defining the two main competencies of their disciplines involved in the project evaluated the curriculum as being in the range of 51 to 75 %. As to explanatory factors that explained the reasons, they gravitate toward the lack of commitment and student interest, lack of market experience and student immaturity. As the effective range of learning skills defined curricularly, the coordinator of both courses evaluated the effectiveness at 100 % in the range between 26 to 50 %. The employability of the two courses that analyzed the coordinator, evaluated the category directly linked to technological training, the rate of 100 % was in the range of 25% for both; the category not linked, the rate of 100% was in the range of 51 to 75 % for both. These findings should not be taken as absolute. And yes it is indicative to feed a continuous form of a learning and teaching process for the proffessional IF Goiano. Urutaí campus has developed from the perspective of human and technological ethics which are creative, competent, committed and innovative.