Educar para a liderança servidora: avaliação do programa de articulação da Educação básica do SESI com Educação profissional do Senai/BA

Abstract

Contemporary society is undergoing profound changes in most diverse areas. In this context, it has been asked about the principles and values that have been leading human actions. It was never spoken so much about issues such as solidarity, equal rights, respect for diversity what has shown the search for a new way of living and a more effective model of social, economic and political development. According to this new scenery that is marked by the differences, by hunger and exclusion, the existence and commitment of the leaders that are worthy of trust and show reliability become essential. This present dissertation, that takes into consideration this scenery and its demand, brings into reflection the role of education in the training of servant leaders and in the encouragement of the ethical and caring sensibility development. Leaders who intensely desire and struggle for a fairer and more humanitarian society have serving the others as the focus of their aspirations and actions. Thus, the developed work assumes that servant leadership can be learned and taught. SESI Articulation Program of Basic Education with SENAI – EBEP, Regional Department of Bahia Professional Education was analyzed with the aim of identifying if and how this program has been contributing for the training of servant leaders. Data collection instruments such as document analysis, interview with coordinators, teachers and students of EBEP, and focal group with egress in the Program were used. The results show that even though the EBEP Program does not have the development of servant leaders as one of their goals, certain values and principles of this kind of leadership are part of their Plans and part of SESI and SENAI Political and Pedagogical Projects. However, it is perceived that these values and principles no longer appear with the same intent or intensity in the course plans, in the class plans, in the syllabus or in the pedagogical activities that were analyzed. It was also identified that the criteria used to approve students to get into the technical courses of the program has promoted some competitiveness among them. Such characteristic goes against what it is proposed by the servant leadership. It was noticed that EBEP is recognized as a reference model when dealing with articulation, elementary and professional education, revealing to be a productive area for the development of the servant leadership.