Currículo integrado e a formação integral de jovens: uma proposta do Instituto Federal Farroupilha campus Santa Rosa

Abstract

The research approached issues related to Public Policy and School Practice and its developments in the field of technical professional education of medium level integrated to high school, having as methodology the case study of the Technical Course in Integrated Building, on offer in Campus Santa Rosa, one of the teaching units of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Farroupilha (IF Farroupilha), of the Rio Grande do Sul state. As a production technique of empirical data, a questionnaire with open and closed questions was applied to students. In this context, strategic space of knowledge production, was studied through of document analysis and the questionnaires, how the integrated curriculum has been developed and what are the meanings that are being built by the young students of the course about the curriculum based on the assumptions of integral formation of the human being. For this analysis, it was considered that the integrated curriculum, to reach the effective overcoming of curricular fragmentation and duality between formation for intellectual work and formation for manual work, needs managers, teachers and students involvement, which are responsible for planning, developing and evaluating the curriculum in the wider sphere of the collectivity, of cooperation and dialogue. The research focuses on the meanings produced by young students about the restructuring of the curriculum of the Technical Course in Integrated Building that occurred between 2011 and 2013, which came into force in 2014, forming the first class in the new curriculum in 2016/2. Researchers like Ciavatta (2005; 2012), Ramos (2005; 2008; 2012), Frigotto (2005; 2012) are the main theoretical framework that supported the restructuring of the curriculum of this course. In addition to these researchers, Arroyo (2013), Dayrell (2003; 2007; 2014), among others, provided the basis for this research. Data production occurred in two stages: 1) in 2015/2 with the young students of the last class of the old curriculum; and 2) in 2016/1 with the first class to graduate in the new curriculum. By comparing the look of young students about the course, it was possible to realize the validity and significant structural change in the curriculum, as well as methodologies applied to minimize the curriculum fragmentation. However, more importantly, the idea was reinforced that to happen actually teaching with the assumptions of the integrated curriculum coming to the integral formation of the human being is necessary to look at the students as social and cultural youth situated historically, immersed in the contemporary time changes that occur constantly. These changes should be perceived in order to that the methodologies and relations in the social context also change. Both the young from the old curriculum as the new curriculum strengthen the appreciation of the humanization of relations in schools institution, making it clear that the greater the proximity between knowledge, teacher, student and working life, the more effective learning and integral formation for young.