Os novos desafios da educação profissional e tecnólogica na Bahia com a implantação do IF Baiano

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of active and effective managers and members of the old Agrotechnical Schools Federal da Bahia in relation to the reorganization of federal vocational education, science and technology and the process of implementation of the new institutions created by Law11.892/2008 - the Federal Institutes. Sought, also, identify the major challenges to be faced by the Federal Institute Baiano for implementing a professional and technological education quality. He made a historical review of public policies for professional education in Brazil from the 1990s to the period of this research, in order to give theoretical support to the work, without the worry of a discussion about these policies, introducing some reforms and/or governmental actions implemented for this type of education in the same period. The research took a qualitative approach, being used as a research tool in the questionnaire, that was applied to a sample group composed approximately 1/3 the body of the four old servers Agrotechnical Schools Federal da Bahia as well as their CEOs. It was made a characterization of the new institutional model, created from the transformation of these units at the Federal Institute and discussed aspects related to the concerns that permeated the discussions before and after the creation of institutes. Ultimately, after the systematization of the responses of the group studied, were presented, in view of the sample groups, the greatest challenges to be faced by IF Baiano for consolidation of the new organizational structure.