Os desafios da integração curricular na gestão pedagógica da Escola Estadual de Educação Profissional Elsa Maria Porto Costa Lima no curso técnico de hospedagem

Abstract

The Secretaria de Educação do Ceará – SEDUC (Secretariat of Education of Ceará), in 2008, initialized the process of implantation of Escolas Estaduais de Ensino Médio Integrado à Educação Profissional (EEEPs) - public high schools integrated with a professionalizing education. Those institutions were installed in the capital and in the countryside of the state, after researches on the job market which showed the necessities of the region. In 2009, Aracati city, located in coastland of Ceará, received the Escola de Educação Profissional Elsa Maria Porto Costa Lima, which offered four technical courses bounded up with educational proposal which articulates professional formation to high school teaching, aiming the professionalization of youth of the region. Its directives and references were based on the perspective of an integrated and integral curriculum. The EEEPs are consolidating themselves, we highlight, it is a public policy of education of quality, establishing itself as solid net and articulated with the necessities of a technical labor for the regional job market. However, even with increasing number of institutions introduced and the consolidation of this public policy, the Secretariat of Education and the teaching establishments face big challenges in the process of integration, which is not different in Aracati city. The obstacles are many and they pass by the articulation and the effectuation of an integrated curriculum. For this reason, the SEDUC, in 2012, promoted formations for the principals and teachers aiming to reoutline the curriculum of some courses offered by the EEEPs. The trial served to visualize the beginning of a movement of curricular approximation, which should happen on ground of the school, from the construction of a political pedagogical project more integrated and close to the local identity. The process objectified the aggregation of teachers, students and coordinators and principals for the necessity of an articulated curriculum. Thus, from the formations and debates promoted by the Secretariat of Education, the schools were asked to initialize its pedagogical proposals articulated to the technical teaching, involving the scholastic community in this challenge. The present dissertation aims, this way, identify and reflect about what has complicated the curricular integration in the EEEP Elsa Maria Porto, initially investigating the Technical course of Hosting and proposing and acting plan which may intervene in the school reality, giving the opportunity for better conditions for the integration, through the structured planning, the dialog between the different areas of knowledge, the participative management, integrative scholastic practices and the good use of time and pedagogical spaces.