Constituição do IFRS – Campus Vacaria : contribuições das narrativas memoriais de servidores

Abstract

This research was developed within the Professional Master's Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) at the Instituto Federal Farroupilha, Jaguari Campus, between 2023 and 2025. The following theme was addressed: Constitution of the IFRS Vacaria Campus: contributions from staff memorial narratives. It is part of Research Line 2, Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces at EPT, and Macroproject 4, History and Memories in the Context of EPT. The aim was to answer the following research question: How was the historical trajectory of the IFRS Vacaria Campus formed based on staff memorial narratives? The overall objective of this study was to analyze the historical trajectory of the IFRS Vacaria Campus through the memorial narratives of staff members who participated in the early stages of this institutional unit's development. The specific objectives were to: recover the historical construction of the Vacaria Campus through documentary research; identify the initial and current challenges of the IFRS Vacaria Campus, as seen through the memorial narratives; reflect on the main impacts that the IF's work can have on the community of Vacaria and the surrounding region; and develop a documentary to publicize the memorial narratives of IFRS Vacaria Campus staff members, thereby highlighting this journey and strengthening the identity of this institutional unit. This qualitative work was based on bibliographic research of dissertations on the topic investigated in ProfEPT's institutional repositories and the work of authors who have dedicated themselves to problematizing the EPT; documentary research, including legislation, decrees, ordinances, various institutional documents, news articles, and photographs from institutional websites and private collections. For data collection, the research relied primarily on semi-structured interviews conducted through audio and video recordings. Twelve staff members contributed their narratives about this historic event. Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) was used to analyze the data collected from the interviews, according to Moraes and Galiazzi (2016). Through the staff members' narratives, it became clear that the establishment of the IFRS Vacaria Campus was accomplished with the support of many community members, political leaders, and staff. It's a history fraught with initial challenges, some overcome and others in the process of being overcome. A campus that is already embedded in the community and seeks to increasingly consolidate itself in aspects such as physical infrastructure, staff, and program expansion. Furthermore, an educational product was created in the form of a documentary, which allowed for the publicization of the research participants' memorial narratives, highlighting their progress to date and strengthening the identity of IFRS Vacaria Campus, which, since its implementation and operations, has positively impacted Vacaria and the Campos de Cima da Serra region.