Aprendizagem em ação no contexto da formação em hotelaria na Universidade Federal da Paraíba.

Abstract

Learning in action is a way of learning that become primordial the relation of theory and practice. A good development of this tool guarantees an effective learning development– as much personal as professional – of a student, making it responsible for its own learning process. Therefore, this paper suggests as its main goal to analyze the student’s insight of the Hotel Management Course/UFPB in relation to learning in action in its educational process. Its specific goals are describing learning in action, identifying the theoretical-practical relationship of the Hotel Management Course/UFPB from the interviewees’ point, as well as verifying the improvements that will promote the learning in action of the course. The research had a qualitative methodological abortion, as a descriptive one, it used an applied nature and inductive method. All data was collected through five former students’ interviews of this course. To the interview, an interpretative and comprehensive analysis method was used, and its basis comes from reading all interviews so that we could codify and describe them, and so they could be comprehended by means of a subjective perspective. For this reason, the present paper approaches some questions related to former students’ perceptions about the theory and practice in face of the teaching methods of the course, as well as enough resources to achieve a graduation degree focused on learning in action and if these resources may improve comprehension of subject that was given in class. It measured the student’s level of autonomy and targeting in face of the professional career in this area through the process of learning, as well as the importance of learning solving questions in an individual or shared way. In addition, we make a connection to comprehend if the course conducts the student to learning, fundamental improvements, in order to promote a process of learning in action during the graduation. All achieved results demonstrated that learning in action of the Hotel Management Course is still low, bearing in mind that a professional of Hotel Management works with services, and it is essential to learn practicing during graduation. There is a lack of priority resources to became the relation (theory and practice) more substantial and efficient. We conclude that is vital that Hotel Management Course implants a methodology focused on practice related, directly, on its curricular grade to qualify and better prepare the professional of Hotel Management, as well as build a school hotel to that students realize the real routine of a professional, coming closer the practice area and professional context.