Elaboration and dissemination of educational products in the Professional Master’s Degree in Professional and Technological Education

Abstract

In this article, presents the first results of research on educational products prepared by graduates and teachers of the Postgraduate Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) in 4 four Federal Institutes (IFSC, IF Sul-Rio-Grandense, IFPR and IFRN), from 2019 to 2022. The high number of graduates from this Program at the time of the research (1,179) led us to choose the 4 four associated institutions that had with the highest number of graduates during the research period, corresponding to 22.2% of the total. Considering that ProfEPT's educational products must be aimed at teaching in basic education institutions, especially those of Professional and Technological Education (EPT), the objective of the investigation was to understand the types of products created by graduates of this mMaster's degree and to find out whether this material teaching is reaching the target audience for which they are intended. Two databases were consulted: the ProfEPT Observatory, which contains the numbers of graduates and products, and the eduCAPES portal, which contains includes the number of views and downloads of these products. Of the 264 educational products examined, those of the “manual/guide/support text” and “book” types predominated. Regarding the number of downloads, those of the types “didactic sequence”, and “manual/guide/support text” stand out. Based on such results, it is considered that the aforementioned  this Professional Master's Degree has contributed to the dissemination of disseminating knowledge and pedagogical practices about EPT, requiring, however, the expansion of the variety of products.