Nas águas o diploma: o olhar dos egressos sobre a política de interiorização da UFPA em Cametá-PA

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Maria do Socorro da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10046
• topic: Estado; Sociedade civil; Egresso; Avaliação institucional; Universidade na Amazônia; Universidade Federal do Para -- Campus de Cameta, PA -- Avaliacao; Ensino superior -- Amazonia; Universidades e faculdades -- Amazonia; Amazonia; Civil society; Former student; Institutional evaluation; University in the Amazon; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This paper aims at demonstrating how the UFPA Interiorization Policy is evaluated by former students of the teaching degree courses offered in the Cameta/PA Campus through their own insertion in the local teaching system, having as perspective the repercussions provided by this municipal policy. For this study we have elected as subjects former students from 1991 to 2004, Bachelors of Art in Education, History, Geography, Mathematics and Bachelors of Arts in Language Teaching. The procedures observed in the making of this study demonstrate, through the case study, the effort of an empiric task, based on the gathering of diversified sources concerning former students and the Interiorization in a Campus as singular as Cametá s. The choice of the qualitative approach and the historical-dialectical procedure helped understand the meaning of the implemented policy. To pursue the methodological path in the search of information, techniques and tools for the data gathering were elected, with the objective of best verifying the evidence found. In order to do so, we appealed to the bibliographical research, documental research, and in the field work a questionnaire was applied in a universe of 373 former students; obtaining the feedback of 113, outnumbering in 30% the intended sample. The questions in the previously mentioned instrument were deepened through interviews with other 5 former students. Having as an objective to know the history of the Cametá Campus and its repercussions in the county as well as the autonomy process we interviewed: 1 principal of the Association of the Rural Workers, the president of the Fisherman s Colony, 1 representative of the Commerce Management Association, the current and former Secretary of Education of the county, the current and former Dean of UFPA, combining into a total of 12 interviewees. This study will be structured in three moments. Initially, we discussed the Interiorization from the point of view of the relationship between the State and civil society in the scope of the public policies; for that we appealed to a theoretical analysis sustained in Antonio Gramsci, and analyzed the category of former students and university autonomy. Next, it is presented the Tocantins campus in action in the context of the local and global policy of its 21 years of history. The third moment answered to three different objectives. Initially we present a reflection on the importance of former students in the evaluation processes, based on a dialogical and participative conception. The second moment, of a predominantly empiric trait, consists in the presentation of the study results with the former students. In the last section, the opinion of the representative of the Civil Society and the Public Power about the repercussions of the UFPA interiorization policy in Cametá is stated. In the final comments a contribution to the former students personal and professional life is presented, in addition to an indication that the autonomy jeopardized the Cametá Campus, taking it closer to extinction. However, that does not stop us from stating that the interiorization of UFPA in Cametá is a public policy of social inclusion of the rural population. The innovation of the work lies in the creation of an evaluation methodology that can be developed in other Campuses and universities of the region at reduced cost for the State in its implementation. The policy was assessed as satisfactory by having produced significant changes in the education in the county