Pesquisa enquanto compromisso social, retribuição social e valoração institucional: panorama histórico e desafios científicos do ProfEPT/IFPI no período de 2020 a 2024

Abstract

The Postgraduate Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), IFPI, Parnaíba Campus, has been qualifying professionals in the area of teaching in professional and technological education since 2019. One of the mandatory requirements for completing this master's degree is the production of an educational product that must be developed based on problems observed in the daily life of school education, professional environment or the social environment in which one lives. They address current topics that discuss and present possible solutions to the observed problems. It can be inferred that the Educational Product (EP) is an effective tool for opportunity and rapprochement between academic knowledge and practice in professional education. Currently, the ProfEPT program, IFPI, has already made available through its graduating students a total of 60 EPs at the institutional level. Therefore, there is already a significant amount of educational resources available for use by internal and external users of the institution. However, it is noted that there is little knowledge and dissemination regarding EPs and their use by the academic community of IFPI. It is through the perception of this phenomenon that this study has as a research problem to investigate, which institutional actions and limiting factors have marked the operating scenario of ProfEPT/IFPI with a view to guaranteeing the propagation of educational products and research developed in the period from 2020 to 2024? and as a general objective, to point out the institutional actions and limiting factors that have marked the operating scenario of ProfEPT/IFPI with a view to guaranteeing the propagation of educational products and research developed in the period from 2020 to 2024. Methodologically, this research is configured as a quantitative-qualitative investigation using exploratory and descriptive studies associated with content analysis for data collection and interpretation. The result was the finding that 72.3% of IFPI employees are unaware of the educational products developed at ProfEPT and point out as the main reason the lack of dissemination of the program and its academic production. Based on the results obtained, a collaborative guide was created, the main objective of which is to promote, through the Academic Institutional Base (BIA), greater knowledge and dissemination of PEs among employees and other actors in the IFPI academic community.