Educação tecnológica e empregabilidade: revelações de egressos

Abstract

The Technological and Professional Education in Brazil, marked by the sign of the division between manual and intellectual work, dating back to the early twentieth century, with the establishment of Schools of Learning Crafters. This century of existence was marked by advances and setbacks, struggles and hopes to make it effective like integral education. In the last two decades, public policies, particularly, those arising from LDBEN/1996 brought new incentives for this type of human and professional education, increasing the number of institutions, courses and turns, finally, the prospect of effectuation as claimed extension and access democratization and graduation. The Technological Courses gained centrality in the expansion processes and many speeches indicate guarantees of employability. But in what terms? This thesis, integrated to the Line of Research Education, Society and Culture, proposed to interrogate which mediations are established between the technological training and the employability, revealed by egress of the Systems Analysis and Technology Development Course, of the IF Goiano Campus Urutaí, designed with an emphasis on the notion of skills required to respond to the market conditions for the professional technologist performance. Was the employability actually accomplished? To answer this question, it was chosen to privilege the voices of egress, entering students from 2003 to 2008, 108 egresses, which 65 accepted to participate of the research. The conducted reflections were addressed, theoretically, in official documents and researchers like Antunes (2005), Cunha (1977, 2000), Ciavatta (2005), Frigotto (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010), Kuenzer (2005, 2010), Manfredi (2002), Ramos (2011), Saviani (2005), among others. In the research design of quantitative and qualitative methodological matrix, the following procedures have been defined for the empirical basis: analysis of official documents (national and institutional), interviews (01 Course Coordinator, 04 managers and 02 Attendant) and a questionnaire (Egress). Secondary data were provided by the Department of Higher Education of the Institution, locus of the research. The egress revelations, by the purpose of employability, proved the marketing optimism of the job security is not always effective. Among 60.19% (65) egress, it was found that 93.84% (61) are in the labor market, which, at first, it revealed high employability. However, the data presented have complained that the 61 egress who reported being in the labor market, only 29.51% (18) are exerting activities inherent to their training area. Thus, in reality, the marketing "promises" disseminated by the public policies have not been obeyed in the Systems Analysis and Technology Development Course of the IF Goiano Câmpus Urutaí.