O curso técnico em alimentos do Proeja : um exemplo das contradições entre educação e emprego

Abstract

This work is part of the studies conducted by the Research Group PROEJA/CAPES/SETEC/ES and had as its main objective to analyze the implementation of PROEJAs Food Technician course at Ifes/Itapina. As a case study, qualitative in nature, it sought to identify the reasons that led the offering of the course by the Institution, despite the fact that the results of a previous research conducted on the school s neighborhood, suggested that the communitys preference was for courses related to Agriculture. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used as instruments of data collection, as well as the document analysis of the Course Project proposal. 44 subjects participated in this study. Out of 44, 40 students answered to a questionnaire. In addition to, 10 male students, 2 female students, 2 alumni students and 2 representatives of the school administrative board. The review of literature presents the challenges in the Professional Education integrated to the youth and adult basic education in the Countryside education perspective, having as its main references scholars of the rural education, work, and education, as: Caldart, Saviani, Frigotto, Ciavatta, Ramos e Antunes. As part of the results, we can highlight that the course was offered in order to meet the requirements of the Decree nº 5840/2006 which was an unprecedented offer in the studied Campus. The proposal analysis shows an integration tentative in the way that the curriculum contents were organized, making the pedagogical action in monitoring its integration in the school setting, a challenge. The subjects workers/students affirm the importance of the course in their professional development, highlighting the professional related contents as the most important. The data show their concern about getting a job, since there is no such need of work that could hire the aluminis. By listening to the students, also allowed us to reaffirm many social and cultural stigmas, as one of the main findings was the great presence of women and the break in their studies due to their own life history. For the institution remains the challenge of consolidating and diversifying the course offer in order to attend to the professional development demands that have already been identified, which demands from the government the duty to offer, with quality, professional education to the youth and adult