O programa de educação profissional de nível médio integrado no estado do Ceará: avaliar para avançar

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of a research that aims to investigate and analyze the Technical Education Program integrated to the middle school in the state of Ceará, developed in ten schools located in small, medium and big cities of the state of Ceará from the year 2008 to 2011 and intends to investigate the existence of risks for the sustainability of the professional schools resulting the courses offered or of the cities where the schools are localized. The research intends to use the legal literature and documentary analysis from which it is described the evolution of the professional middle level education in that state from the nineties. To answer the main question, it will also observe student performance, integration in the labor market and higher education and the general characteristics of the professional schools related to technical support, professionals contracted and aspects of curriculum organization and its possibilities to subsidize the construction of an effective educational project and committed to middle level technical training in a citizen perspective and emancipator. Finally, it is presented an Educational Action Plan (PAE) with strategic actions that suggest alternatives to the problems and difficulties to develop and implement procedures related to the program within schools in order to achieve the proposed objectives.