Instituto Federal do Piauí - Câmpus Parnaíba: trajetória de hoje, memória do amanhã (2007 – 2012)

Abstract

This dissertation is constituted by an investigation about the relation of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI), Campus Parnaíba, with the process of expansion of Federal Net of Technological Education, which led to the creation, implementation and development of the referred campus. Its main goal is to collect, organize and analyze the facts and documents in the sense of giving historical grant in present and immediate time of Campus Parnaíba and use such records in order to analyze the process of implementation of that Campus inserted in the expansion politics of Federal Net of Technological Education. The research initially shows a historiographical work of exploratory and qualitative character, with grounded theory in Present Time History, supported by the concepts of Jaques Le Goff, Jean-Pierre Rioux, Agnès Chauveau and Philippe Tétart, also with contribution about the History of the Institutes of Education, according to the teachings of Justino Magalhães. The research construct a fragment of the history of Professional Education in Brazil, in Piauí and in Parnaíba, in a way to contextualize the problematic and reach the signed objectives. The documentary survey was followed by semi structured interviews of the participants of the process of implantation of the Campus from its foundation to present time and analyzed in a comprehensive view. At last, this work shows how the process of implantation of Campus Parnaiba – IFPI happened, since its inauguration in 2007 to 2012, in the process of expansion of Federal Net of Technological and Professional Education. It is observed that these five years there has been a significant expansion, both in the outskirts of the Campus the same as infrastructure, through the increasing number of students, technical-administrative and teachers, with an increase in the number courses at various levels of education, providing a expectation improvement in the quality of regional workmanship and insertion in the market labor.