Ten Years of Creation of Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology: about the Offer of Teacher Training Courses in the Areas of Science and Mathematics

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https://doi.org/10.35819/tear.v9.n1.a4019

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Abstract: Ten years after the creation of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (FI), we present in this article the number of existing courses in these institutions, with special attention to teacher training courses in Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. This motivation has arisen for us, on the one hand, due to the context of creation of FI, originally educational institutions focused on technical and professional education, and, on the other hand, to the Law of Creation of the FI, that requires a reservation of 20% of their vacancies for teacher training courses, especially in the areas of Science and Mathematics. In this scenario, we investigate the space that undergraduate courses occupy in the FI from consultations to the Nilo Peçanha Platform (NPP) - base year 2018, virtual environment for dissemination of official FI statistics. Based on the total number of courses available in the FI, we identified a greater offer for technical courses, about 51% of the total number of courses, and an expressive growth of undergraduate courses, about 7% of the total number of courses. Furthermore, we observed that there are 26 different degrees in operation in the FI, which approximately 62% are in the areas of Science and Mathematics. Therefore, after the first decade, the historical characteristics of the institutions that gave rise to the FI has been preserved, since there is a greater offer for technical courses and, at the same time, the offer of undergraduate courses has grown and established itself as an institutional matrix of  the FI.

Keywords: Federal Institutes. Teacher Training Courses. Science and Mathematics.

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2020-07-02

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Ten Years of Creation of Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology: about the Offer of Teacher Training Courses in the Areas of Science and Mathematics. #Tear: Journal of Education, Science and Technology, Canoas, v. 9, n. 1, 2020. DOI: 10.35819/tear.v9.n1.a4019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/4019. Acesso em: 20 jun. 2026.