Competência em informação na educação profissional e tecnológica: uma análise das habilidades informacionais nas práticas de ensino e aprendizagem

Abstract

The cultural changes as a result of social and technological development related to information recquire from individuals to be information literate to act in them daily life, in academic situations and in world of work. Vocational Education, as an educational modality that aims train workers, must include Information Literacy as a requisite to make students know how make decisions or solve problems based in information. This research questioned here: how information abilities are inserted in Vocational Education context? It aimed to investigate the role of Information Literacy in education of students in Vocational Education. And had as specific objectives: a) investigate the principles of Information Literacy aligned to the Vocational Education concepts in the Pedagogical Project in a technical course integrated to High School; b) identify the professor’s practices to the development of Information Literacy in a technical course integrated to High School; and c) evaluate the students acquisition of Information Literacy though their professional education in a technical course integrated to High School. It had as theoretical background approaches the history and development of Information Literacy and Vocational Education, making connections between these terms and presenting standards and models applied to the education of workers. It was an exploratory research in two steps: 1) bibliographic and documental research; and 2) Exploratory research. The exploratory research was made in three phases: 1) Analysis of Content of the Pedagogical Project of the Course; 2) Application and analysis of a questionnaire to professors; and 3) Application and analysis of a questionnaire to students. The research universe was IFCE, campus Cedro, and it was focused in the Technical Course in Eletrotechnics integrated to High School. The building of the research instruments and data analysis were based on the Conceptual Framework of Oliveira and Silva (2018). Among the main results, it highlights that: the Pedagogical Project include the life dimensions of the educative process, but they are not used as main principles to its creation and do not approaches Information Literacy in its content; the professors are aligned to the Guide Principles of Vocational Education (BRASIL, 2007), includes practices related to acquisition of informational abilities, but still exists a duality between professors of High School disciplines and professors of Vocational disciplines; and students that have their information abilities well developed and consider to their presence in world of work. It concluded that the inclusion of Information Literacy in Vocational Education is essential to discuss the formation of future workers, that will be in world of work, which is permeated in a rage quantity of information and that is also essential the creation of models and standards that make easy the insertion, evaluation and improve practices to teaching and learning information abilities, having as educational principle the work.