As ações de Extensão Do Instituto Federal do Ceará e suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento local: uma avaliação do Curso de Formação Inicial e Continuada de Pescador Profissional no Campus Acaraú.

Abstract

The proposed research has as main objective to evaluate how the extension activities practiced in the IFCE campus of Acaraú, specifically the Extension Course for Professional Fisherman Training Level 1 (POPN1) contributes to local development. In this sense, we sought to investigate in the context of the Expansion Policy of the Federal Institutes of the State of Ceará if the university extension developed at IFCE in the city of Acaraú accomplish its role as an articulator of knowledge and professional qualification based on the thematic axes of the extension. In view of this, the guiding question was: how does the Level 1 Fishermen Training Course, an extension action practiced on the IFCE campus of Acaraú, contribute to the local development of the municipality? The methodological approach adopted the case study as a research strategy, as it allowed the construction of an empirical investigation that unveiled the phenomena within their real context. The approach was of a qualitative type, this path offered a greater interaction between the researcher and the researched subjects. For the interpretation of the reports obtained, Bardin's content analysis (1977) was used. As an evaluation proposal, we opted to use the Constructivist Assessment of Guba and Lincoln (2011) methodologically supported by the technique of the Hermeneutic-Dialectic Circle. The results of the research revealed that part of the extension actions developed on the campus are designed with a focus on local development and disseminated to society through courses and projects. It was also evidenced that the POPN1 course contributed significantly to the training of fishermen graduates, because, through the consensus obtained with the application of the Hermeneutic-Dialectic Circle, positive improvements were revealed in the behavior of these sea professionals, both from the point of view of environmental preservation and fishing resources as well as professional conduct and its social context. Therefore, the public policy of expansion of Federal Institutes in the municipality of Acaraú, points to considerable qualitative impacts, as they showed a significant trend towards improving the social and environmental reality of the region.