FORMAÇÃO INTEGRAL: DESAFIO DA TEORIA PARA A PRÁTICA, DA PRÁTICA PARA A TEORIA

In this work, we propose to understand the possibilities of scope and practical purpose of the political-pedagogical project of IFRN, a federal educational institution located in the city of Natal. The research with a qualitative and quantitative approach has a descriptive nature, constitutes of a sample of 211 subjects, researched by the Technique of Natural Semantic Networks and by the Theory of Knowledge Representation. It seeks to find out if the constructionofknowledge,whichunderlietheintegraleducation,proposedbytheentity,aremade present in students enrolled in higher and technical courses, if the fundamentals and principles of integral formation are found in their representations of human beings, society, culture,science,technology,workandeducation.Accordingtothemethodologicalprocedures and its results, such representations have not been detected. It was not represented by students in the sample to overcome the duality of education: manual labor and laborintellectual.