Um olhar diferenciado acerca da educação em Secretariado Executivo: a história não oficial do curso da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

Although not present a consolidated scientific on the national scene , the Executive Secretariat in higher education expands apace. Such a perspective can be proven quantitatively by means of 134 courses in operation in Brazil , according to the Ministry of Education (2013 ) . This research aims to record the proceeding of the establishment and implementation of the course Bachelor Degree Executive Secretary of the Federal University of Ceará through qualitative method called oral history . Its construction followed the conceptual model of the sport Oral History Theme Ichikawa and Santos (2011) as well as the methodological steps proposed by these authors. From the predetermined specific subject and narrative interviews with representatives of institutions representing the secretarial class that participated in the historical process of creation of that course in 1990 were performed . The study also focused on consulting the bibliographic sources dealing with the top story in Brazil and documents officiated the object of study. It is, therefore, a descriptive research whose data allowed to infer that ignorance and negative stigmas about the profession slowed the acceptance and creation of Executive Secretarial course at the Federal University of Ceará . You can also say that the Association of Secretaries of State of Ceará led by their leaders at the time, the struggle for the implementation of that course in UFC, seeking to meet the requirements imposed by the Rector for the course to be accepted , including the search for a thousand signatures and the development of curriculum proposal .