Impactos de política de formação continuada dos docentes do Instituto Federal Fluminense - campus Bom Jesus do Itabapoana

Abstract

The law 11.892/2008 has created the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Tecnology, establishing changes in the working way of the institutions which now compose the Federal Web of Scientific, Professional Education. The teachers started to have a broader acting and the students, access to different formation paths. The current society also demands from the school the development of new duties, in an extremely changeable and fast production of knowledge scenario. In this context, the teacher represents an important role, specially in the changing of the students’ thinking and attitude, requiring, therefore, constant acquisition and knowledge improvement that could contribute to his teaching practice. The Fluminense Federal Institute is among the institutions which embrace policies that encourage the continued formation of their servers/professionals. In this way, this study had as a general purpose to investigate the policy of teachers' continued formation, aiming to identify its impacts in the practice in IFFluminense. The investigation took place at campus Bom Jesus of Itabapoana and was attended by 15 active on Technical Courses and Higher Education teachers, who were served by the Continued Formation of the Institute and Academic-Professional Development Support Program between 2010 and 2014, for participating in post graduation courses. We embraced the qualitative approach, by conducting case study, intending to understand the meanings which the teachers attributed to the continued formation and the knowledge built by them. With bibliographic research, it was possible to develop the broad study of the issue, through the optics of several authors. It was also held documental research, including documents about the creation of the institutions that compose the Federal Web of Professional Education and about the aspects of the teacher continued formation policy, nacionally and at IFFluminense. For the data collection, it was applied a questionnaire, with questions regarding the policy of institutional continued formation. In order to analyze the questions that contained free opinions, we used the substance analysis method, according to Bardin (2009). After the tabulation, the data was presented through graphics, scales and in a textual form, allowing the debate of the results based on the studied authors. We concluded that the IFFluminense's policy of continued formation provides positive effects in the teacher acting/performance, especially regarding to the applicability, in teaching activities, of acquired knowledge in post graduation courses. With this study, we do not intend to finish the debate about the continued formation, but to evince aspects of this process in the development of teacher activities in the institution context, opening possibilities for new thoughts about the theme in several contexts.