O IFPI na Praça: um olhar para a memória e o impacto do evento

Abstract

Extension events, such as IFPI na Praça, which has been developed by the Parnaíba Campus of the Federal Institute of Piauí for ten years, generate memories of activities carried out by the Institution. In this sense, this work seeks to know if there are contributions from the event to the memory of the intitution’s extension. It was aimed at with the study analyze whether, and how, this event has contributed to the memory of the IFPI Extension - Campus Parnaíba, in the period from 2015 to 2024. To this end, we sought to: i) identify the normative documents of the IFPI - Campus Parnaíba regarding extension activities, to determine whether the IFPI na Praça project is meeting the Institute's mission; ii) list the documents/monuments of the activities of the IFPI na Praça project, from 2015 to 2024; iii) point out which practices IFPI – Campus Parnaíba teachers develop with the IFPI na Praça, towards integral human formation and iv) develop didactic/instructional material showing the history of IFPI na Praça activities. Theoretical discussions mainly address: Memories (Benjamin, 1994; Candau, 2021; Le Goff, 2013), Integral Human Training (Ramos, 2008; Moura, 2014) and Extension (Freire, 2022), in addition to laws and other regulations on extension activity (FORPROEXT, 2012). Forming part of the Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technological Education research line and the Organization of Pedagogical Spaces macroproject in EPT, of the Professional Master's Degree in Professional Education on a National Network – ProfEPT, the research was characterized by a qualitative approach, a Case Study procedure, a dialectical method, of an applied nature and a descriptive exploratory objective. Data generation occurred through research into documents relating to the IFPI na Praça, carrying out semi-structured interviews with managers and coordinators and applying questionnaires with open and closed questions to the institution's teachers. The generated material was processed using Document Analysis (Cellard, 2008) and Content Analysis (Bardin, 2020 and Franco, 2018). The results helped to understand that: a) although there is a concern in recording activities carried out at the event, there is a need to compile material about it, as some projects are scattered or were not registered, creating gaps; b) teachers give credibility to the event, have used varied practices to carry it out and believe that, after each edition, interaction in students' group activities improves; c) the projects developed meet the regulations of the institution and partner bodies and d) the event has served, since its inception, as publicity for the city's Federal Institute. The records found, the responses and statements of the people researched show that the IFPI na Praça has contributed both to the memory of the Campus Extension and to the integral human formation of the internal community and the socialization of academic knowledge with the external community. These notes helped to develop an Educational Product in the form of an e-book, which consists of an ordered compilation of images and information from editions of the event, aiming to be a memorial for those who worked in it, an incentive for other employees of the institution to also engage in its activities and informative to Parnaíba society in general about what IFPI - Campus Parnaíba is and this extension event that has already completed a decade.