Atividade-fim do IFPB: profissionalização e Enem

Abstract

<p>This work aims to identify and describe discourse (s) and voice (s) of students and teachers from Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Picuí campus, about the main teaching aim of the institution. This study focused on the main teaching objective of IFPB in order to help the understanding of the advantages and drawbacks in the teaching process as well as the profile of the student that is approved in IFPB selection process. It is a descriptive-interpretative research whose corpus is composed of two sets of data. The first one is documentary and concerns the statute of IFPB and the public notice of the Selection Process for Presential Technical High School Courses . The second one concerns the answers to the questionnaire given by students and teachers from IFPB-campus Picuí. The Students are from Geology, Buildings and Information Technology courses, from the first and fourth years. The research is based on speech studies (FAIRCLOUGH2001), within the scope of the analysis of textually oriented discourse or critical discourse analysis, and in the concept of “voice and character”, as presented by Mey (2001) , in the context of social pragmatics. The data show that regarding the official documents of the institution, the main teaching objective of IFPB has already been consolidated, but in practice there still seems to be some disagreements with the official discourse because most of the students want quality education to pass the National High School Exam (In Portuguese, it is used the abbreviation “Enem”). This is the characteristic that defines IFPB, according to the students, and not the technical or professionalization teaching, therefore the voice of the society is that that IFPB offers students a great quality education . Some teachers also believe that , it is necessary to prepare student for Enem.</p>