A ausência de sentido da formação profissional para o público adolescente: uma investigação no ensino médio integrado no IFTO/Campus Palmas

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the meaning constructions of the students of the third year of the integrated high school at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins (IFTO) – Campus Palmas. Thus, it was sought to analyze qualitatively the possible relationships between the meanings assigned to the integrated high school by teenager students and hegemonic discourses of contemporary society; how these discourses affect the conceptions of the students about the teaching practices in IFTO Campus Palmas, as well as the possible inconsistencies between the implementation of this type of education in the institution either in focus or according to the Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais da Educação Básica (2013) (the National Curriculum Guidelines for Basic Education - 2013). The methodology used, from qualitative nature, was carried by semi-structured interviews to a better understanding of the issues raised in the survey. The data analysis was performed from the content study, which allowed us a better understanding of the subjects of meaning constructions researched. The theoretical framework included several authors that discuss the Brazilian educational scenario of integrated high school, under a historical and critical perspective, as well as authors that address the Brazilian youth condition in the integrated high school, trying to understand it in the intricate relationship between contemporary culture, educational institutions and nowadays youth condition. It was identified after analysis of the survey data, a loss of sense of technical education and even a utilitarian character of the adherence to high school, towards a successful integration an existing need of higher education, by the interviewed adolescents. We understand that there was a confirmation of the appointments of historical and critical perspectives used in the present analysis, recognizing that it was not denoted an effective relationship between vocational and general high school education. This study infers also through the data obtained, the contemporary discourses may be redirecting the desire of a significant portion of the IFTO / Campus Palmas teachers out of the integrated high school walls, which comes to denote a divestment in the act of teaching. We have concluded this research emphasizing the necessity of a careful assessment by the educational administration of IFTO / Campus Palmas about the current educational directions of the integrated high school courses, as they may become to the students, only a place for learning knowledge linked to the general education, at the expense of vocational education