EVALUATION OF THE IFCE EXPANSION POLICY WITH THE SEA PEOPLES OF CAMOCIM/CE

Abstract

This work evaluates the policy of expansion of professional and technological education at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE), and it's relationship with coastal people located in the municipality of Camocim/CE. Therefore, the central question is: to what extent has the IFCE expansion policy been contributing to the development of the coastal people in Camocim/CE? Methodologically, this is a qualitative assessment, carried out through a case study at the IFCE Campus Camocim with residents of the Praia neighborhood in Camocim - Ceará. As a result, the evidence shows that that the expansion of the IF provides access to public, face to-face and federal education and that the IFCE campus Camocim contributes to a change of life for the family of the fishermen. However, the dialogue with the maritime peoples is institutionally embryonic, although with the potential to advance in the face of the possibility of IFCE in revising its pedagogical methods in terms of an emancipatory professional education and being consistent with the context of the local community. to achieve development in the sense of Furtado (1980). In this sense, it is suggested to incorporate more inclusive and flexible methodologies through an institutional project articulated with teaching, research and extension, respecting the autonomy of the subjects and the community of the “peoples of the sea”.