A formação em Secretariado: o conhecimento transmitido a partir de cursos de especialização em assessoria executiva

Abstract

The construction of professional identity is indisputably firm in education, being a process based on the continuing learning. Despite the various problems that involve higher education, postgraduation has been the education level with the highest growth, constituting the most successful part of the Brazilian education system. With the aim of identifying some connection between the undergraduate studies in Executive Secretaryship and the knowledge imparted by related postgraduate courses in the same area, this research general objective is to understand if the knowledge offered by lato sensu postgraduate courses specialized in Executive Advisory is giving continuity to undergraduate course Executive Secretaryship starting at National Curriculum Guidelines. Data was collected through a research on the Ministry of Education’s cadastral system to find out the number of lato sensu postgraduate courses specialized in Executive Advisory. In addition, documentary research for content analysis of curriculum structure; information on presentation and objectives of the courses and National Curriculum Guidelines for Executive Secretaryship. The information on the courses were obtained, exclusively, from the websites of each Higher Education Institution. From the analysis of the results It was verified that there is a complementary relation was found between the studies in undergraduate courses of Executive Secretaryship and in postgraduate courses specialized in Executive Advisory. It was identified that target audience of most courses is directed to professionals in the secretarial area, and in the objectives of each course reveal that they aim to provide the improvement of competences and abilities contained in the National Curriculum Guidelines. Moreover, the curricular structures of these courses correspond to the contents that should be present in the curricular organization of the undergraduate courses established in the referred guidelines that can be considered as parameters to guide these courses of specialization and to provide amplification of the knowledge acquired in the academic formation.