A química no curso técnico em alimentos do Instituto Federal do Amapá – campus Macapá: uma abordagem interdisciplinar nas componentes curriculares técnicas

Abstract

This research paper describes the importance of Chemistry teaching in Education concerning the interdisciplinary approach in the technical course in food, with the objective of understanding, within the research, the overcoming of technical rationality and the correlation in the process of teaching and learning, focused on the development of skills that produce change, facing educational complexity of specific technical components in the Technical Course in Food of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - IFAP / Campus Macapa. The research, both qualitative and quantitative, took place with the students in 3rd year High School Technical Course in Food, and to whom were applied questionnaires and interviews along with the teachers. There were also interviews with teachers who teach the curricular component Chemistry and with the technical area teachers, all acting in the course. Concomitantly, a detailed study of the courses matrices was accomplished, through their perspective and interdisciplinary approaches, fulfilling the survey on which content is relevant to the understanding of the students, which are important for learning, understanding and comprehension of Chemistry facing the knowledge of the curriculum technical components. On this study, it was designed a categorization of questions to which the answers were selected by maturity relevance and perceived level of importance of the course by the students, who served as support for analysis and increasing discussion and better understanding of the researcher and the results formulation. Some results appeared, such as the need for experimental practices in appropriate spaces for the understanding and comprehension of the Chemicals; the direct relation between Chemical knowledge and technical expertise; the need for constant correlations between the chemistry and the teaching of technical components and other factors. It was also noted from interviews with teachers, that most of them interpret and claim that the curriculum, as it stands, perfectly meets the high school regular demands, counteracting what is recommended by the General Curriculum Guidelines and other legal documents, because it is the integrated high school technical courses. With this study it was possible to understand and show how interdisciplinarity should contribute in such a way to facilitate the process of teaching and learning Chemistry and its importance in the education of the future Technician in Food that the Federal Institute of Amapá - IFAP / Macapa campus makes available to the labor market.