A extensão como instrumento de fortalecimento da formação para a cidadania no Ensino Médio Integrado

Abstract

Integrated Secondary Education (EMI) is one of the modalities offered at Federal Institutes and aims to train students from an integral perspective, that is, to guarantee technical and human training. Therefore, we believe that extension, by stimulating learning processes in a community context, can contribute to this holistic training. In this context, the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB) implements the Institutional Extension and Culture Scholarship Program (PROBEXC) that serves the Institution's 21 campuses and this Program constitutes a policy with possibilities for developing learning in community. In this research, we aimed to understand how the extension actions developed by coordinators and students contribute to the student's training from a perspective of Training for citizenship in Integrated High School in an institution of the Federal Network of Education, Science and Technology. The investigation is qualitative in nature, with the modality of carrying out a field study. To this end, we selected documents and conducted interviews with coordinators and students involved in extension projects based on PROBEXC. After data collection/production, we proceed to content analysis. We then triangulated the sources of evidence, in order to understand the meanings of the data and how they corroborate the central question of this research. The study identifies how the development of values, attitudes and behaviors related to citizenship education, based on PROBECX, can contribute to the comprehensive training of students and to the strengthening of extension as an educational practice in EMI.