Espaços não Formais de Educação: importância e contribuições para o ensino médio integrado do Campus Xapuri do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Acre

Abstract

Integrated High School has as one of its most outstanding objectives the preparation of the student for the exercise of work, without prejudice to the skills that will allow the continuation of their studies and their social emancipation, being the essence of Education Professional and Technological (EPT). In this sense, we understand that non-formal education spaces can play a relevant role in consolidating these objectives. Based on this premise and through an exploratory research of an applied nature, in addition to the support of a bibliographical research, we used the application of questionnaires to teachers and students of the Campus Xapuri of the Federal Institute of Acre (IFAC), seeking understand their perceptions about non-formal spaces, as well as the importance and contributions that this type of environment exerts or can exert on the training of students in this teaching modality, as well as the contributions of these spaces for the development of teaching work. Another questionnaire was applied to the owners/responsible for non-formal spaces in Xapuri-AC, collecting data that served as the basis for the construction of a Guide to non-formal spaces for teachers. The collected data demonstrate the plurality of training of the teachers at the IFAC Campus Xapuri, but also demonstrate harmony in their perceptions on the subject, also moving in the same direction by agreeing with the importance and the various contributions that non-formal spaces exercise or may exercise for the development of teaching and learning. The same can be registered about the manifestation of male and female students, who indicate understanding about the importance and contribution of non-formal spaces in the promotion of a more meaningful learning, even contributing to a better performance in the contents addressed and arousing more interest in the studied course. We conclude, therefore, that the use of non-formal spaces can and should be used, requiring the encouragement and promotion of these activities by the IFAC Campus Xapuri, guaranteeing the necessary infrastructure and seeking local partnerships to make these environments available. In this sense, we produced and made available to Campus Xapuri and its professionals a Guide to nonformal spaces in Xapuri-AC.