Harmonias e dissonâncias na gestão de estágios curriculares

Abstract

The curricular internship law (Law nº 11.788, 2008), sanctioned in September 25th, 2008, It came as a regulation for this powerful learning academic activity to this country’s students. This norm determines proceedings and competences, besides having inside It the worry with the students protection that, within the practice activity execution’s moment, are presented to the work’s challenges. Worried about the law enforcement, in 2010, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, has promoted a software development - hosted in the academic activity integrated management system - that composes a specific module to manage the curricular internship activities for the university, allowing the procedure and documents unification for all Its 116 undergraduate programs, whether in face to face or distance learning , at the same time It gives out real time data reports. A few years after the management module release, It comes up as this study’s goal the challenge to investigate Its usage. Thus, this study proposed to perform a diagnostic, trying to discover difficulties or facilities, and also the improvements necessity at the internship management system mentioned before. To accomplish this goal, reports from Programs Coordination visits that were made by the Internships Coordinating were analyzed, from April, 2017 to April, 2018, between the first and the second year after the module deployment. The results found by the study indicated that the Humanistic and Biomedical areas programs were those ones that had more records of doubts related to the curricular internship law and the internship system usage, the Biomedical area programs were those that recorded more complaints and those that most suggested modifications for the module improvement, the Humanistic area programs were those that most presented resistance to the module usage and the regulation. Also in those programs were detected more communication problems between the Programs Coordination team and the students, internship law understanding or administrative proceedings and the internship management system usage, while the Technological area programs presented more facilities at the system usage. The study suggests special attention about the internship and program coordinators replacements and turnover. Another fact to be considered refer to the possibilitie of more contribution that the academic advisor can give for the mandatory curricular internship effectiveness. In the end, this study comes to a presentation of an e-book about the internship central module usage under the related law, aiming to aid Its public and all the university community.