Pensamento crítico, autonomia intelectual e formação humana: facetas filosófico-pedagógicas no Instituto Federal de Alagoas (IFAL)

Abstract

This research aims to understand how the students’ critical thinking training has been provided by the institutional proposal and by the teachers of basic education at the integrated technical secondary level of a public school of the Federal Network in the State of Alagoas of a public school of the Federal Network of the State of Alagoas. This study tries to answer the synthesis question, which refers to the research problem: What and how are the institutional proposals, strategies and pedagogical practices of teachers of Basic Education at the Integrated Technical Secondary level of a public school of the Federal Network in the State of Alagoas built, regarding the construction of students' critical thinking? The discomfort that happened during a professional experience in the pedagogical orientation role at the Federal Institute of Alagoas, aroused the interest in carrying out this research, due to the perception of several levels of demotivation among students concerning their training and future perspectives, both from a professional and social point of view, and their interest about the learning processes offered by the institution. This is a case study whose target audience were two philosophy teachers who teach at the researched campus. Data analysis, used in a qualitative perspective, requested documental gathering techniques, such as analysis of the Institutional Pedagogical Political Project and teaching plans, as well as interviews with the philosophy teachers. The theoretical contribution was built through the Critical Theory (with the Frankfurtians Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer), the critical-dialectical and emancipatory pedagogy (with Dermeval Saviani and Paulo Freire). From the subjects' speeches and data analysis, it was possible to find results that raised the diagnosis on the students' human development and on intellectual autonomy and critical thinking, starting from the teacher's point of view.