Contribuições dos servidores técnicos para a formação omnilateral dos discentes: o caso do campus Jequié, do Instituto Federal da Bahia

Abstract

This work has a general aim to discuss the contributions of the Technical-Administrative Education Servers – TAEs, of the Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA) [Federal Institute of Bahia], Jequié Campus, to the voluntary training of the students. To unveil this reality, the theoretical rationale was based on a historical-critical and progressive perspective of education, and qualitative, bibliographic and documentary, and field research was undertaken. It started with the understandings on transnational and technical training, reflections on the work as an educational principle and considerations on ethics and the social context of Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (EPT) [ Vocational and Technological Education]; it followed a brief history of Professional Education in Brazil, considering the Federal Institutes of Education Science and Technology – a new model of EPT, in its political, pedagogical and professional dimensions; and then there was the discussion of the Technical Administrators in Education – TAEs. Finally, the discussion and analysis of the data followed the speeches of technical servers. The results reveal that the TAE servers actively participate as taxpayers in actions and activities aimed at the learners, but in their majority they are unaware of the concepts that guide the full training of the EPT professor (omnilaterality, polytechnics and work as an educational principle). As we see the work as a basic category of the social being, as an educational principle, we stress the need for training in the EPT conceptual bases for technical and administrative servers, by means of courses offered by the IFBA, in order to carry out an educational practice with the critical and political intentionality necessary for EPT students. And as a requirement of the Post-graduate Program in EPT (PROFEPT), we propose the preparation of an electronic communication tool that allows the dissemination of educational content, about the theme explored in the research carried out, in which it considers scientific concepts, theories and productions related to the full training of the learners (dual and polytechnic training), contemplating prior knowledge know by the research in order to expand them or to build knowledge not yet discovered by such servers, always in the progressive perspective of doing education in a capitalist and neo-liberal context.