Memórias da implantação dos cursos binacionais no IFSUL campus Santana do Livramento: a partir de relatos do comitê gestor e dos registros documentais

Abstract

This research was developed within the Professional Graduate Program in Vocational and Technological Education – ProfEPT- IFFAR Campus Jaguari. It is part of Research Line 2 — Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in VTE — under Macro-project 4 — Histories and Memories in the context of VTE. The study sought to investigate the factors and objectives that influenced the implementation of Binational Courses at IFSul, Santana do Livramento Campus. Methodologically, it was organized through a qualitative approach, designed as a case study and divided into: documentary, bibliographic, and field research, utilizing semi-structured interviews to record the participants' oral history. The data were analyzed in light of Bardin's Content Analysis. As results, the bibliographic research found a lack of scientific works related to binational matters in the educational field due to the limited offer of binational courses in the country. The documentary research, in turn, mapped and analyzed legal instruments dating from 1956 to 2011, demonstrating that they progressively consolidated the foundations for the implementation of Binational Courses. The documents revealed that relations between Brazil and Uruguay strengthened over the years, expanding the number of people served by the signed agreements and increasing social inclusion at the border. Field research recovered the interviewees' memories, evidencing that the partnership between IFSul Santana do Livramento and the University of Labor of Uruguay (UTU) met a Federal policy objective, the teaching needs at the border, and that Binational Courses were also created from the will of local and institutional actors. As an educational product, an instructional/didactic material was developed in a Digital Guide format, presenting the laws mapped in the documentary research.