A importância da extensão para a educação de jovens e adultos no ensino profissional e tecnológico

Abstract

This research sought to emphasize the importance of extension actions linked to teaching and research for the integral students’ formation in a technical course in aesthetics that connects youth and adult education (YAE) to professional and technological education (TEP) through Proeja program. It was developed during the Professional Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) of the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology Farroupilha- Jaguari Campus. Initially, it was found through the survey of previous studies that no research linked YAE, TEP, and extension in a technical aesthetics course, for the formation of responsible, ethical, and autonomous professionals and citizens. Subsequently, a bibliographic review was carried out to deepen the knowledge relevant to the research, which culminated in the development of a technological educational product. This work had as objectives the creation and evaluation of a technological educational product that would contribute that course extensions activities were organized, divulged and carried through in the community; the investigation of students’ acceptance of this technological device; the community’s acceptance of it and the comparison of activities scheduled through it and by other means. For this, a website was developed on the WordPress platform, registered by www.esteticaiffarroupilha.com.br electronic address. It covers information about the course, educational institution and extension actions, presented through the digital portfolio that exposes the main possible activities to be developed by students during their formation and a timeline of actions already carried out. The website allows students to express interest in participating in the programmed activities and the population contact to ask questions or propose extension events with course teachers and students. After its wide dissemination on digital social networks, newspapers, radio, institutional website, e-mail, and phone calls, the data evaluation and analysis were made through the quantitative methodology. The first evaluations were through questionnaires anonymously answered by an activity solicitor, and six servers directly or indirectly connected with the extension activities offered and got positive results as to educational product effectiveness for dissemination and carrying out extension actions in the community. The third evaluation found that, between November 2019 and March 2020, four activities were carried out through the website, two, through the institution's servers' proposal for course dissemination, and one, by personal invitation from the city hall municipal. The fourth and fifth evaluations concluded that acceptance of the website by students and the community was satisfactory, considering its short time of use. Still, that adaptation to this technology will happen continuously. Thus, it was concluded with this research that extension actions combined with teaching and research are fundamental for the contextualized, collective, interdisciplinary, social, professional and conscious students’ formation and that the educational product developed contributed to course extension actions dissemination, essential in human emancipation and real perception of the world for the transformation of society.