Integração curricular no PROEJA: a experiência do Instituto Federal de Pernambuco

Abstract

The institutionalization of the Integration National Program of Basic Education with Professional Education in the Modality of Education for Youth and Adults (PROEJA), implanted by Decree 5.840/2006, already arose with the proposal of curriculum integration. These program principles imply the elaboration of appropriate curricula, aiming to contemplate the public specificities which are directed to it, considering the integration presuppositions. So this program is part of a social policy focused on serving the young and adult public who had no access to schooling at the proper age, providing the access to basic education integrated to professional formation. Before this reality, it was possible to find contradictions between speech and practice in the integration of the courses offered by such Program. Two questions appeared for investigation: 1- What are the paths followed in the elaboration of an integrated curriculum, which should be able to overcome the traditional and inflexible model, articulating general, professional formation and specificities of students from EJA (Youth and Adults Education), in a unified way so that work would be focused as educational principle? 2- How PROEJA experience in school routine happens? From these questions, this research was structured, aiming to explain the experience of curriculum integration in technical courses offered by Instituto Federal de Educação de Pernambuco (IFPE) through PROEJA. It is a qualitative research with a descriptive character that uses the following data collection tools: a) primary sources (official documents, courses plans, timesheet, curriculum matrices); b) secondary sources (literature about EJA and public policies for education); c) questionnaires; d) observation. The collected data contributed in comprehending that the PROEJA curriculum integration practice at IFPE is very different from integration principles and presuppositions of EJA. With this analysis, it was concluded that it is necessary that the Federal Sector of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education faces the responsibility to prepare teachers and pedagogical groups, acquiring the real concepts about this public problems and necessities and the integration presuppositions in order to really offer an education able to guarantee to citizen worker the autonomy announced by the documents that substantiate the structural bases of the Program.