Formação técnica em agroindústria: percepções dos egressos que atuam na agroindústria familiar de Venda Nova do Imigrante

Abstract

This survey was conducted in the city of Venda Nova do Imigrante with the graduates from the agroindustry technical course of the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IFES). Aiming to analyze the pedagogic project of the course and the graduates' perception about their technical training. It was used a qualitative approach and turned to case study research, as well as basing on documentary analysis and observation. Started from literature review to support the analysis of educational legislation, IFES institutional documents and the pedagogical project of the course. With the theoretical basis consolidated, semi-structured interviews were done to nine participants, the interviews were subjected to content analysis, through technical analysis category. Understanding that the pedagogic project has two dimensions, the writing and the experienced, it started in a first moment with critical reflection of the written document and secondly to give contours to the pedagogic project experienced in the graduates' perception about their training. The results of this survey showed that on the way to a democratic school it is necessary to overcome the purely academic vision, the dialogue between the academic and the traditional knowledge may resignify the role of training in agroindustry, expanding the participation of the subjects and also enabling the construction of a effective collective project.