Ensino médio integrado e formação cidadã: o exercício do controle social a partir do acesso à informação pública

Abstract

This research has as main objective to understand how the exercise of social control from the access to public information can contribute to the citizen formation of high school students integrated in an Institution of the Federal Network of Professional Education. The research has a qualitative approach and, in terms of type, it is characterized as exploratory and participant. With regard to data sources, a bibliographic and documentary survey was used. The bibliographical survey had the contribution of several authors, whose names were gathered and pointed out at the beginning of each topic of the theoretical framework. As for the documentary survey, the analysis was carried out based on norms that regulate education in Brazil, as well as institutional documents. In addition, the possible impacts of student participation were identified, resulting from the request for information through the Electronic System of the Citizen Information Service (e-SIC) and manifestations registered with the Ombudsman. In addition, questionnaires were applied and interviews were carried out with integrated high school students from an Institute of the Federal Professional Education Network, in order to analyze their perception regarding access to public information, in the context of the exercise of citizenship and social control. The results revealed, among other things, that: a) the information demanded and the manifestations registered by the students, through the e-SIC and the Ombudsman's Office, serve as a subsidy for the promotion of adjustments or improvements of the Institution's organizational processes; b) the participation of students in the Institution's main communication channels with society is still very small or none; c) young students have the will and the potential to participate in public management, but lack the opportunity and knowledge of how to participate; and, finally, d) the need to promote actions with a view to overcoming the difficulties faced by students to access, understand and use public information, so that they can exercise protagonism in society. In view of this, an educational product was created, built from the experience with the researched subjects, taking into account, especially, the needs presented in the interviews conducted. Considering the results of the research, it can be inferred that the effective participation of the student, provided by the access to public information, contributes to their citizen formation, since through real situations, experienced in the academic environment, they can develop critical thinking and conscious