Os cursos técnicos de nível médio e as percepções de egressos de uma escola estadual de educação profissional do Ceará

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research conducted in the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Public Education Evaluation of the Center for Public Policy and Evaluation of Education, Federal University of Juiz de Fora. It aims to analyze the perception of graduates on the suitability of courses offered in high school integrated vocational education. Reports of possible lack of suitability of courses in one of the Professional Education State Schools (EEEP) from Fortaleza / Ceará gave rise to the following research question: what is the perception of graduates on the suitability of mid-level technical courses offered in school? Through a qualitative research in the form of a case study, the work was based on the theoretical framework that deals with the school management, teaching performance and the relationship between high school and work, namely: Heloísa Lück (2009), Haguette (2015), Gaudencio Frigotto (2004), Maria Ciavatta (2004), Eliezer Pacheco (2012), among others. Thus, a study was conducted from analysis of documents, interviews with teachers guiding the Supervised Internship discipline and questionnaires answered by 94 of the 170 students who completed the technical courses average level in the Secretariat and Information Technology between 2012 and 2014. The results They showed the need for two intervention actions - the establishment of an outreach program of courses offered from school conclusive 9th graders of elementary education and monitoring of graduates - in order to contribute to meeting the needs of those involved - and evaluation project of the courses offered, with greater coordination with sectoral and structural policies of employment and income, aiming to raise the quality of education without losing emphasis in the integral formation of citizens.