Ensino profissionalizante e de nível superior em Secretariado: similaridades e diferenças

Abstract

Secretaryship professionals are able to work in several types of organizations as well as the category has many formations. These professionals can obtain the following academic titles: technicians, technologists and bachelors. The lack of knowledge about how the formations of these professionals are structured and which areas of knowledge are prioritized in each teaching have motivated the present study. The main objective of the study is to identify the similarities and differences between courses of professional and undergraduate education in the area of Secretaryship. The methodology used was a qualitative research, based on a documentary survey. The research was developed through the analysis of the curriculum of the five courses in the Secretaryship area in Fortaleza, being two technical courses and three courses at the undergraduate education, two for technologists and three for bachelor degree. This is a qualitative and descriptive research. Analysis of the results shows that the Secretaryship formations of the five courses under study present remarkable similarities on the disciplines of the areas of knowledge that are presented in most of the curriculums analyzed and that the plurality of knowledge is a characteristic present in all teaching modalities of the area. Differences were also identified from the point of view of technical education in which theoretical knowledge is found; while in undergraduate education, the focus of learning is the knowledge in managerial processes and development of scientific production. There were also distinctions among subjects in analyzed specific areas offered by the technical courses but not available in the higher-level courses Similarities and atypicalities were observed between the analyzed curricular structures, reaching the proposed objectives and contributing to the investigation of the observed phenomena.