Concepções e práticas de estágio supervisionado no Campus Macapá do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amapá

Abstract

The study deals with developed conceptions and practices of supervised internship in training middle level technicians in Macapá Campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science Technology of Amapá (IFAP / Macapá). Its goal is to analyze the limitations, challenges and contradictions that permeate the completion of Supervised Internship activities in IFAP / Macapá. For this purpose, taking as reference the educational changes that occurred since the 1990, having with theoretical approach the crisis of capital and the resulting restructuring of production and the emergence of new demands for training workers to meet the new type of business claims for productivity and competitiveness in face of the new context of the capital globalization. This is a basic research, a qualitative analysis of descriptive nature, that falls into the category of survey research type. The subjects are students, teachers and administrators of the IFAP / Campus Macapá. For data collection, we used electronic questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, participant observation and analysis of primary literature sources The data analysis showed that there are numerous difficulties for the supervised training to fulfill its educational role in the formation of middle level technicians. Among these difficulties, we highlight the shortage of apprenticeship positions, the difficulty in mediating between schools and businesses, the overvaluation of professional practice as a formative element and the disarticulation between the internship and the curriculum development of the investigated courses. The study concludes that it is necessary to review the role of internship in the training of mid-level technicians from the studied institution, so that students and teachers can understand the supervised training as a formative activity and not as a first professional experience or as a first job. Although the study does not propose to exhaust the topic addressed, it recognizes the need for a critical analysis of the institutions of vocational education facing the contradictions of capital-labor relationship and its Brazilian historical context. This perspective opens the possibility of establishing new strategies for mediation between the school and the world of work, in order to overcome the logic of the market and enforce the formative principles of a citizen worker, able to intervene in the social environment and the world of work autonomously, where the supervised training is seen as an opportunity to consolidate the practice in the training of mid-level technician.