Integração curricular : um estudo sobre o curso técnico de nível médio de mecatrônica do campus Charqueadas IFSUL

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation research is to study the curriculum of the high school technical course in Mechatronics at the Instituto Federal Sul - Rio - Grandense, Charqueadas Campus, focusing on its integrated conception curriculum, i.e. the interrelation of technical disciplines and general (propaedeutic).In order to analyze and reflect about the integrated curriculum of the technical high school in Mechatronics in Charqueadas Campus, and relating it with the national intellectual production about this type of educationwe consider this significant research of such topic aimed at a better understanding of this type of curriculum currently used in the federal system and its implications upon the formation of the technical high school student of the investigated institution. In this work, the integrated secondary education is taken as the central object of analysis. The purpose is mainly to identify the directions given by the professional education and to reflect about the conditions of implementation of the integrated high school courses from the reality of the educational policy of federal institutes courses. Therefore, we studied the teachers' perception of what is integrated education, which accounts for the campus and provides for the student today. An analysis of interviews with professors of Mechatronics will give an idea of what perception of teaching staff about the applicability of this method of teaching, and what it represents to the Campus in accordance with its individual vision.