“O CANTEIRO DE OBRAS COMO UM ESPAÇO PEDAGÓGICO”

Abstract

The purpose of this subject is to study the pedagogical conditions found in the stone masons of the firms where the students from the Civil Engineering Course of the “UCG – Universidade Católica de Goiás” take their professional training, as a effective environment for an auspicious apprenticeship of practical acknowledgements by the students, due to their acquaintanceship with the professionals, and where they can learn how to apply their theoretical knowledges to practical conditions of working. Part of the study is based on a research about the conditions proper to the stone masons, where the students do their apprenticeship and the actions in the discipline “Estágio Supervisionado” of the Civil Engineering Course of the UCG take place, in the task of preparing the students to face the reality of the construction enterprises. A clear view of the power relations between the workers at the stone mason and the student trainees, as well as the effects derived from these relations on the acting of those students, are the main results of these analysis done. In a similar way, a certain negligence has been detected in the roll of the University, with respect to an efficient accompaniment of the students’ performances, during the training periods, independently of the will of the teachers. A reflection about the conquests reached by the formation programs based upon the abilities and competences desired, has endorsed the application of scientific research projects as a basic educational principle for the generation of new knowledges. Yet, it shows that there are three different moments in the formation process of a student, who chooses the Civil Engineering course to take: 1st) As he succeeds in the “Vestibular” – it refers to the volume of diversified knowledgements the student is tested upon, so as to enter the University; 2nd) During the graduation course – it concerns the roll of basic and professional disciplines the student is obliged to take, besides the complementary experience of the professional training he gets outside the school; 3rd) After he graduates from the University – in regard to his professional life, he is required to attend a continuing formation program so as to satisfy the strenuous working conditions of the economy. This reflection also suggests a few changes in the curriculum of the Civil Engineering Course of the UCG and in the relationship between the Universidade Católica de Goiás and the productive world of the stone mason, for it to be identified as a privileged place for the UCG Department of Engineering students to learn the practice of the Engineer’s profession.