Verticalização nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia : concepção(ões) e desafios no IFRS

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of the investigative work about the conceptions of verticalization – between what is determined on Law N 11.892/2008 (which creates the Federal Institutes for Education, Science and Technology – IFs) and what is observed inside the Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), with special attention to Bento Gonçalves and Sertão campuses. The objective is to research the conceptions that based the definition of verticalization between the goals and characteristics of the IFs and find how much it has been operationalized in the aforementioned units, as well as the challenges of operating this process in the routine of the pedagogic actions of the Bento Gonçalves and Sertão campuses of IFRS. The relationship between teaching and working, the investigation of the historic process of professional education in Brazil and of the current public policies related to this type of education, as well as sources related to the discussed theme are presented as theoretical support of the dissertation. In order to sketch the Outlook of verticalization inside IFRS, twelve interviews were made as a written questionnaire or in live interviewing, according to the wishes of the interviewed. The process of interviewing and the analysis of this empiric corpus point to a plurality of conceptions of verticalization, among them: (1) the one that understands that to verticalize the education means to offer, in the same unit, courses of the same fields and/or axis in different levels, so that the students have the possibility to complete, without changing the institution, the graduating process since high school until the post-graduation; (2) the one that conceives verticalization in this same manner, adding the advantages and challenges of the teacher’s actions in the many different levels of schooling, part of it being the sharing and optimization of the pedagogic spaces and, in a fusion of both conceptions, (3) a graduating course in which students, teachers and all the other subjects of the process, independent of the degree of schooling, may see far beyond the optimization of the costs, insuring to all the right to a quality public schooling through the actions of the IFs in the local production organizations, as per the mission assigned to them. Relating to the challenges of verticalization inside IFRS, the manifestation of the interviewed people points to the existence of situations and realities that make the operation of verticalization difficult, specifically in the Bento Gonçalves and Sertão campuses. Those are addressed on this work under the categorization of challenges for a new “verticalized” institutional culture and challenges for a new pedagogical practice based on the verticalization. Among the main challenges addressed, there are those related to the understanding of the implications of verticalized schooling, the overcoming of conceptions e practices not compliant to the new establishment and the capacitation of the board of servants, beyond the needed sensibilization of the community to act on this new form of designing the courses and developing schooling. To the internal demand of IFRS that motivated the realization of the research, it is intended to present, within the possibilities and limits of the text, the result of the investigative process not as a conclusion, but rather as a provocation for the continuity of the reflection about the theme, taking in account its relevance in the context of the Federal Institutes for Education, Science and Technology, as well as according to the current public policies for the professional education in Brazil.