Desafios e possibilidades para implantação de políticas públicas de pós-graduação stricto sensu um estudo de caso no IFTO

Abstract

This dissertation of professional master's had as its intention and final product the elaboration of a study that revealed the challenges and possibilities of the implantation of Stricto-Sensu Postgraduate policies in the IFTO - Palmas Campus. The State of Tocantins has 10% of the programs and 9% of the Stricto Sensu courses in the Northern Region, all of which are offered by the UFT. Unlike the South, Southeast and Northeast regions, in only six states of the federation the Federal Institutes do not yet have Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs, Tocantins is one of them. In contextualizing on this theme the following questions were raised: are there opportunities for creating them? What would be the Institute's main challenges in implementing these policies? Based on these questions, the main objective was to unveil the challenges and possibilities of the implementation of Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Policies at the Campinas IF campus. For this purpose, the following specific objectives were defined: to identify the intellectual capital of doctors in order to verify the needs for the implementation of such policies; to characterize their offers of higher education by looking at the possibilities of verticalizing education; and understand the state of the art of these policies developed internally within the institution. A case study on the Palmas campus, with a qualitative, quantitative and descriptive approach, was used as methodology, using documentary research in the portals of IFTO and Capes, in documents and reports published. No mention was made of the development of Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs. It was found that in 2018 the IF offered twenty-nine higher courses distributed in baccalaureate, technological and bachelor degrees and that to these graduates graduates and teachers is not yet opportunized to verticalization through masters and doctorates of the institute itself, as in other states. In the period between 2010 and 2017 actions were developed to train a total of three hundred and sixty-eight servers to masters and doctors through agreements with other HEIs, in addition to leave for capitation with and without scholarships. However, the Federal Institute of Tocantins possesses an intellectual capital of doctors with relevant scientific production, but who still lacks the experience in spreading stricto sensu courses, these being some of the requirements of Capes to offer these programs.