Desvelando os sentidos atribuídos pelos professores e técnicos sobre as mudanças institucionais: da Escola Técnica Federal do Piauí ao Instituto de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí

Abstract

Professional education in Brazil throughout its process of formation has undergone significant changes in its history, resulting in changes that would relate directly or indirectly to the professional context of the components of these scenario actors. From this perspective, the aim of this work was structured in order to understand through a historical period as the institutional and administrative changes in vocational education had an impact on the senses of and administrative staff with the locus of the current Federal Research Institute for Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI) in the city of Teresina, who before writing was titled Federal Technical School of Piauí (ETFPI) and later, Federal Center of Technological Education of Piauí (CEFET),by treating the timeline from 1994 to 2008. These dynamics have brought new scenarios promulgating beyond the simple change of nomenclature, and thus bringing cyclical and structural changes relevant to the everyday life of the organization. The methodology for developing this study it was used the literature in books and articles establishing theoretical framework on vocational education in Brazil, mainly. In a second moment it was made a qualitative research in that institution, using questionnaires and interviews as an instrument of data collection among the employees, teachers and administrative.For data analysis was used as the content analysis technique.The conclusion of the study demonstrated that the proposed historical changes in the plot of the educational policy facing the vocational education in the current IFPI brought with impacts the lives of professionals involved in the process relating to distinct and individual mode in each employee searched by assigning different senses, influencing the formation of teachers, salary issues, offering satisfactions and dissatisfactions, and, reverberating in the degree of quality of teaching and student body, now stating precariousness of infrastructure, now incorporating quality, according to each historic moment seen.