Guia memorialístico da FUNACI: três décadas de trajetórias e contribuições na educação profissional e tecnológica no Piauí (1989 a 2019)

Abstract

The following dissertation aims to present the legacies and contributions that Padre Antônio Dante Civiero Foundation (FUNACI) left in the field of technical and professional education in Piauí, from 1989 to 2019. This assessment was carried out within the scope of ProfEPT, in the research line: Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technological Education (EPT). In the light of this, it intends to present conceptual aspects of EPT, the history of school institutions and rural education as a teaching modality. FUNACI is identified here as the organization that holds pioneering schools in Piauí, with the creation of the first Agricultural Family School in Aroazes/PI and the Tourism Family School in Teresina/PI, among others. Aside from that, it develops an innovative methodology in the teaching area of high school technical professional education, the alternation pedagogy, as an education strategy in the field. Methodologically, it consists of a bibliographical research with a qualitative approach. Furthermore, it has a documentary character, through the use of structured interviews, with the participation of subjects from the institution's historical process: managers, teachers and graduate students, covering the time frame from 1989 to 2019. In addition, FUNACI stands out as an active institution in offering professional qualification for teenagers and young people in the countryside, through high school technical professional education, as well as initial and continuing education, aligned with social demands and relevant legislation. The main findings pointed out to the institution's pioneering spirit in the creation and maintenance of the EFAs, EFTUR and CACN, in the set of professional training strategies for young rural and urban periphery. It is observed that FUNACI has developed a social and political capillarity in the creation of teaching units with the participation of various social actors; the local community, the municipality, state, federal government and society in general, so that along the way there was an expansion in the offer of technical courses. The challenge highlighted in the study points to the debate on the organization's pedagogical and philosophical proposal, from its origin, history and the need for essential financial resources, especially regarding to public funding and the respective impacts on the institution's projects. It was also possible to reflect upon the institutional maturation during the necessary adaptations over the period – for the functioning of schools. It is noticed that there were changes in the stages: from elementary education to technical professional education, and in the field education modality, in an integrated form, with the appliance of the alternation pedagogy methodology. Such actions, contributed to the integral human formation and the challenge posed, that of the implantation of the subsequent regular technical secondary education, differing from the trajectory with the alternation. We conclude that: FUNACI has a legacy of pioneering in professional education in the State of Piauí, due to the implementation of EFAs; the institution has made a notable contribution to technical professional education at secondary level, in the field of education, with adaptations for application in the urban context such as the Escola Família de Turismo, and might advance in other areas of technical education at secondary level and in FIC. Finally, the educational product resulting from the research is a book (e-book) that presents the foundations of EPT and the institution's trajectory with professional education