Formação docente e educação profissional e tecnológica no IFCE: experiência com a licenciatura em ciências biológicas no Campus Jaguaribe

Abstract

This study was developed through the line of research entitled Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technical Education (PTE), of the Postgraduate Program in Professional and Technical Education (PROFEPT), of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), at Mossoró’s campus. Its objective was to contribute to initial and continuing education of current and egress students of the Licentiate Course in Biological Sciences of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará (IFCE), in Jaguaribe’s campus, through the implementation of a mini-course focused on the theoretical basis that guide PTE’s teaching practices. This course was developed after the acknowledgement, through the analysis of the institutions’ documents, that discussions on this topic are not part of the licentiate’s course curriculum. Therefore, a mini-course focused on the theoretical basis that guide PTE’s teaching practices was elaborated and its target audience were the students of the Licentiate Course in Biological Sciences of IFCE/Jaguaribe. Thus, this is a qualitative study performed through an action research, since it aimed to minimize the aforementioned problem. A number of twenty-two current and egress students took part in the course. The data was obtained through a diagnostic evaluation, with the application of a questionnaire and the activities that were developed throughout the course, which evidenced the lack of knowledge related to the conceptual basis of PTE and the elements related to the teaching practice in this modality. After the planned meetings, the students exposed their impressions about the course. Despite the positive feedback, they pointed out that there is the need of reading more about the studied themes. Our self-evaluation led us to understand that this was a motivating and innovative proposal to IFCE. However, we also understand that the workload and the proposed activities need some adjustments. In what comes to IFCE, we suggest a reformulation of the Course Pedagogical Project of the Licentiate Course of Biological Sciences and the other teacher training courses, in order to contemplate teaching in PTE, since this modality has been on the rise in Brazil in the last decades.