Prestação de contas dos projetos de extensão: contribuições para consecução dos objetivos da Educação Profissional e Tecnológica e do processo de ensino-aprendizagem

Abstract

This work proposes an improvement in the teaching and management processes within the scope of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia - IF Baiano by verifying the accountability of extension projects with a focus on the relative investigation of the proof of their contributions to the achievement the goals of Professional and Technological Education (PTE) and the teaching-learning process. Extension activities represent one of the most active forms of PTE with society, as when observing its objectives and purposes it is clear that extension actions are fundamental for effective dialogue between social demands, teaching and research, impacting on the continuous revision and harmonization of teaching and research with local socioeconomic and cultural needs, thus consolidating itself as a key element for the effectiveness of PTE policies when it comes to articulation with the world of work and social segments. Thus, extension is understood as an essential and integrated resource to the teaching-learning process, because under the principle of inseparability between teaching, research and extension, it allows a break with the fragmented teaching pattern by implementing a model that corresponds to the integral education of the student in seeking the unity of theory and practice as a fundamental element for professional training referenced in social reality. In order for the research objective to be achieved, a qualitative approach was used through bibliographic, documentary and field research, adopting the focus group and the application of a questionnaire as a data collection strategy. The technique used for data analysis was the content analysis proposed by Bardin (2010), which allowed to unveil the meanings of the corpus obtained with the collected data resulting in the perception that the effort to assert the contribution of such projects to achieve the goals PTE goals and the teaching-learning process are due to the absence of more direct questions in this regard in the documents that validate the closure of these projects and guidelines by norms and guides that highlight these important requirements at the time of their accountability. This result justifies the proposition of the Educational Product of this research entitled: “Extending the accountability of extension projects: emphasis on their contributions to Professional and Technological Education”, having as target audience active managers and employees (teachers and administrative technicians) in the accountability process of the IF Baiano extension projects, germinated from the perceptions of these and the researcher who emerged at the end of the research as a possible proposal for incremental innovation in the accountability process of the execution of these projects. Thus, this research and its product focus on themes related to the chain of results in the context of PTE and seeks to add value to it by proving the contributions that extension projects at IF Baiano can offer to achieve the objectives of the PTE and the process teaching-learning process of the students involved.