A atuação do PLANFOR no combate à pobreza em Maceió

Abstract

The main goal of our research was examining the consequences of basic professional education courses offered by PLANFOR at the city of Maceió/AL,considering its efficacy, verifying the ways students learned and evaluated the knowledge they learned during the courses, taking the socioeconomic profile of the students, evaluating the impact of this kind of courses on the professional and productive life of people who participated on them. Was discussed either the links between the courses and the new concepts like education, basic skills, and competences, and the ways they are engaged on the demands of the new production model. The research is qualitative and the methodology is Content Analysis. To do the research we used interviews with students who had already finished the courses and documental analysis. We understand that PLANFOR did not achieve its main goal, considering that the majority of the students are off of the labor market. The courses also did not improve the domestic budget of the students. We verified that the transversal contents, with social approach, was poorly remembered by the students, but the contents related to the profession, was vivid on their memory.