Desenvolvimento e educação: uma análise do desenvolvimento de capacidades humanas no CEFET-MG

Abstract

This paper used as the main theory the Development as freedom, perspective whose main feature is to consider that the acquisition of individual freedoms is the end and the middle of the development process, and the Capability Approach, which allows the study of this process. The principal objective was to examine whether the unity of CEFET-MG, located in Varginha, enables the development of capabilities in their students. To this end, it sought the opportunities that this organization offered and if the students recognized and appropriated them. This survey was conducted in the years 2014 and 2015; It was characterized as a exploratory and descriptive case study, and for the analysis, we used the Capability Approach and Content Analysis. This paper also developed a material for data collection and analysis, based on five essential capabilities, according to the Capacity Approach and the studies about education and development. As a result, the unity of CEFET-MG, located in Varginha, officially offers various political participation opportunities to its students of integrated education, but does not offer effectively, through incentives and routine practices. It provides opportunities to develop social capabilities; economic capabilities; It offers transparency and good relations, and enables opportunities of development of sense, imagination, thought and reason, autonomously, intellectual and morally oriented; but also presented several limitations in the analysis of these opportunities. The students have demonstrated to seize the opportunities offered by the school and to realize their faults. It was noticeable that many capabilities that students have demonstrated had relationship with the school, but also went beyond it. It was evident the weight that school and teachers exercised in development of students' capabilities, and the inconsistency that reached the studied school, because to the extent that it should develop capabilities in their students, also demonstrated to wait the initiative of students. Finally, the Capability Approach proved viable as a research method, because allows multidimensional analysis of an organization. This paper remain an example of exploitation of this approach in studies of education and development, and remain also as a material for future comparisons with other schools.