A REFORMA DA EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL DE NÍVEL TÉCNICO: CURRÍCULO POR COMPETÊNCIAS - UM ESTUDO NA ESCOLA AGROTÉCNICA DO CAJUEIRO

Abstract

The present work reconstitutes the reform of the Professional Education of Technical Level regulated by decree 2.208/97 at Agrotécnica School of Cajueiro (EAC), UEPB Campus IV, located in municipality of Catolé do Rocha, PB. The mentioned reform, inserted in actual phase of productive reorganization of fund (1997 2006) returns to the traditional dualism, between Professional School and High School and institutes the curriculum by competences. Parting from decree 2.208/97, the assurance of competences by formation realized, estimates cadastre of establishments of teaching, which maintain professional courses, at MEC and CREA/PB. For certificate competences, the Technical Schools have started the process of reforms, relatively the organizations of teaching and curriculum. As long as member of functional board of the Agrotécnica School of Cajueiro, as teacher for more 25 years underwent this reform, in years 1999/2006. The climate tension caused by difficulties and problems faced in institutional quotidian, have instigated us to realization of this research. We have assumed, as object of investigation the (re)significance of the reform instituted by Decree 2.208/97, specifically, the study of the curriculum by competences. We have defined as objectives: to analyze the impacts of pedagogical reform implanted in the mentioned Institution and the implications of this reform in school dynamics and teaching work. For the theorical investigation, we have assumed critical boarding about the work (Marx and authors who reaffirm the centralization of work), about the reforms of the Professional Education in Brazil and the curriculum. For the methodological boarding, we have prioritized the analyzes of the speech, based in Bakhtin, by compatibility with the purposes of the study. The empiric research happened at Agrotécnica School of Cajueiro in the school year 2006. The subjects of research were the teachers and managers of Technical Course in Art and Science of Agriculture and cattle raising. As instrument of collect of data, we have utilized semistructured interviews and official documents, which have materialized the reform. Collected data have been systematized, through following categories: The administrative organization of reform and pedagogical organization. Produced synthesis reveal: Contradictions between legal devices of norms and the practice of changes; theorical inconsistencies, relatively the speech of competences and the implantation of same ones in the education; bureaucracy, disqualification and devaluation of the teaching work; besides the reinforcement of the contradiction fund-work. Beyond the synthesis, we have bet in the movement of the history and have kept the faith in human being and in the education while the fund has insisted in destroy them.