EXTENSÃO NA EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL E TECNOLÓGICA: O PROGRAMA MENINAS CIENTISTAS E O EMPODERAMENTO FEMININO

Abstract

This research was carried out during the Professional Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) and aimed to analyze the development of female empowerment from the participation of girls in the program Scientist Girls: education, empowerment and confrontation of gender violence. The study followed the line of research on Educational Practices in Technological Professional Education (TPE), which follows a qualitative approach and a case study method. The locus was the Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG) – Uruaçu campus and the participants were students and teachers from the IFG – Uruaçu campus who are part of the Scientist Girls program and the extensionist participants. It started with a bibliographic review on the bases of the TPE, the relationship between work and education, the educational and social commitment of the extensionist practice, the constitution of the woman's identity from the point of view of capitalism and the link established between the use of literature, the process of awareness and female empowerment. Data collection took place through document analysis, including work plans, reports and scientific production of the Scientist Girls program, questionnaires and interviews were applied, in addition to participant observation during the literature workshop. For data analysis, we used the method of data triangulation and methodological triangulation, considering the study of several documents and the different categories of participating subjects. The research pointed actions and indicators that show the commitment of the Scientist Girls program to opportunities for access to science, bringing girls from Brazilian public schools closer to the IFG – Uruaçu campus, integral education, encouraging awareness and empowerment women through literature. Even so, the need to broaden discussions on gender inequalities and their implications was perceived. Therefore, the development of the research culminated in the planning and deployment of two educational products, being a literary text and a short-term workshop, both with the name “Cinderella, happily ever after?”, whose objective is to bring literature with thematic axes of sensitization and awareness about the construction of female identity and the inequalities that permeate social relations in the retelling and in real life.