Estudo dos egressos do programa de formação profissionalizante dos funcionários da educação básica, na modalidade à distância - PROFUNCIONARIO, no estado do Ceará

Abstract

In the last decades, one of the challenges in the area of education, concerns the demands for professional training of education officials, including documents and non-teachers. Goals of struggles in search of valorization and professional recognition. Recently, the segment of non-teaching staff conquered with the Ministry of Education the creation of the National Policy for the Training of Primary Education Professionals. At the time, the Initial Training Program was created in the Service of Professionals of the Basic Education of Public Education Systems - Profuncionário, with an offer of four courses of professional technicians, namely: School Feeding, School Infrastructure, School Secretary and Didactic Multimeters. The general objective of this research is to evaluate, based on the perception of the graduates, the contribution of the Profuncionário program to its training and professional performance, in view of the proposals of the guidelines of said program. In addition, a study of the guidelines of the program and a brief report on the professional of the public basic education, on the vocational technical education in the distance modality and on the Profuncionário program was carried out. The methodology used included empirical and descriptive research. The study, being a survey, is characterized as being of the survey type, with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The data collection instrument used was the questionnaire composed of open and closed questions that will be analyzed in both quantitative and qualitative perspective. According to the quantitative of respondents and the characteristics of each course, a proportional stratified probabilistic sample was defined. Data from 260 graduates were collected and analyzed, being 22 of School Infrastructure, 30 of Didactic Multimeters, 41 of School Feeding and 167 of School Secretary. The main results show that 78% of the graduates are female, that the predominant age group is 31 to 40 years, that 72% work in municipal public schools and that 54.2% work in the area of the technical course they have completed. With regard to the contributions of the program to the professional training of non-teaching staff, the results obtained show that 95.4% of the graduates recognize themselves as educators, integrating the teaching and learning process. At the time, positive and negative aspects of the program were identified, as well as improvements were suggested. Based on the researched literature and taking into account that the objective of the program is the valuation of non-teaching staff, the results indicate that the program, although it needs small adjustments, is meeting the objective by which it was implemented.