A prática educativa e os desafios do curso técnico em meio ambiente no Instituto Tecnológico do Estado de Goiás Governador Onofre Quinan

Abstract

This work is the result of a research of the Professional Masters Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), of the Goiano Federal Institute, Campus Ceres. It begins with a reflection on the history of professional and Technological Education (EPT) in Brazil and Goiás and how public policies were developed until the creation of the Technological Institutes of the State of Goiás (Itego). The research is relevant in the sense of contributing data on the EPT State Public Network, since there are few studies on the subject, mainly in the state of Goiás, since the proposal of this type of education presupposes the offer to a growing number of people, building competencies, skills, attitudes and values. The locus of the study was at Itego Governador Onofre Quinan (Itegogoq), which is located in Anápolis - Goiás, with the aim of identifying whether the concepts and principles set out in the Itegogoq Environmental Pedagogical Course Project (PPC) materialize from the educational strategies favorable to the understanding of meanings and the integration between theory and professional practice. For that, we developed a qualitative research of the case study type, resorting to bibliographical and documental research, using as data collection instruments the semi-structured interview with the manager and the application of questionnaires to the students and teachers. For the interpretation and discussion of the data, we rely on the content analysis of Bardin (2016), in order to know the interfaces of the researched location. The result of the investigation indicated that the classes of the technical course on Environment were reorganized, due to the isolation and social distance caused by the new coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, and since 2020 it has been taking place in the Virtual Learning Environment (AVA), however teachers began to jointly use other media and technologies available to stimulate and guide students' studies. Thus, in order to collaborate with educational practices at EPT, especially at Itegogoq, regarding in-class or distance learning activities mediated by technologies, we created, as an educational product, the "Guide: Use of Digital Tools in the Technical Course on the Environment", proposing educational practices that use digital tools that prioritize student protagonism for active learning, encouraging training from the perspective of emancipation.