Desenvolvimento de competências à luz da aprendizagem transformadora : o caso de estudantes de administração em uma empresa júnior

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the learning process of students involved with the opening of a junior management company for the development of professional skills. In this sense, it intends to also, as specific objectives, identify the perspective of transformative learning in the students interviewed and relate the competences pointed out by the students with the competences detected in the Pedagogical Project of the Administration Business Course of campus IV/ of The Federal University of Paraíba. The study was based on the articulation between transformative learning guided by Mezirow, skills and the movement of junior companies. Therefore, the study is qualitative approach, deductive method, characterized as descriptive and case study. The data collection process was conducted through semi-structured virtual and face-to-face interviews, analyzed through comprehensive and interpretative analysis of the data. The results were organized into 6 categories that address the theme: Encouraging the opening of the Junior Company, Involvement and reflection, Experience and learning in the Junior Company, Changes with the experience in the JC, Skills developed with the JC and Contribution of skills acquired. It is concluded that the interviewed junior entrepreneurs managed to acquire 19 professional skills, being some close to what is established in the of the pedagogical project of the course e referred course. And the development of these skills occurred by a transformative learning achieved in the domains of instrumental and communicative learning, as well as content and process reflection. However, it is necessary to develop more the emancipatory learning domain and reflection of premises so that learning is effectively transformative and better collaborate in the development of professional skills.