A oferta de cursos de formação tecnológica e sua relação com o desenvolvimento regional. Estudo de caso: instituições de ensino tecnológico no Paraná

Abstract

This work reports an investigation that had as motivation the interest in analyzing the main aspects involved in the definition of the technological courses’ supply in the State of Paraná. An exploratory research was used, made through a case study with qualitative and quantitative analysis, pointing to comparative aspects. In order to attain the purpose of this research, technological and tehnical courses in the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), the Technical School of the Federal University of Paraná, the Center of Professional Education Irmão Mário Cristóvão (PUC-PR) and the National Service of Industrial Learning of Paraná (SENAI-PR) had been analyzed, which means a total of 153 courses. The verification of the research hypotheses was carried through from interviews with coordinators of courses and the general coordinators of each institution. There were used as theoretical references the concepts of technological education, Technology, Regional Development and Competencies based education mainly the ones of the studious: Gaudêncio Frigotto, Mário Bunge, Renato Ribeiro, Francisco Llorens, Marise Ramos and João Augusto Bastos. As main results, it was verified that, the influence of the technology is present only in eventual partial updates of traditionally offered courses; the market requirements are partially present in the lines of direction that determine the offer of technological courses; competencies based education has not influenced this offer; the instituional traditionalism appears strongly and the regional aspects are very litle significative such results show that the prospection of technological, social-economic and cultural aspects, is normally not used in the definition of offers of courses in the technological area and that this offer is based mainly on internal aspects of each institution.