A importância da extensão tecnológica desenvolvida pelas ITCPS para a travessia rumo à educação politécnica

Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss the technological extension developed by ITCPs (Technological Incubators of Popular Cooperatives) as an effective form of polytechnic education. We think the need for this discussion based on the observation of the difficulties of integrated high school in order to make polytechnic effective. For this study, we analyzed the content of some official documents that deal with the federal professional education network and more specifically about technological extension and its purposes. Bibliographic works that discuss Professional Education and Technology (EPT) in Brazil, conceptual questions about polytechnic and technological extension were also analyzed. This information was crossed with data obtained from testimonies of students, teachers and people who participated in ventures incubated by ITCP / IFBA in order to perceive results of a pedagogical practice with a polytechnic nature. As a theoretical framework, we are guided by the conceptions of dialectical historical materialism since we understand that this theoretical basis, besides being the basis of these themes, can facilitate the understanding of the issue in question. We hope to demonstrate the technological extension from the practice of ITCPs as a viable methodological path for polytechnic education.