Um estudo da ressignificação do controle social no Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - Campus Caicó.

Abstract

Social control is very important to citizenship practice. Although this right is naturally positive to the public administration, it faces barriers when it comes to its fully realization. This happens due to the lack of a participative culture, of patrimonial practices as well as to the population’s disbelief in their institutions of political representations. In short, it has been noticed that the social control will only be successful when these practices are effectively discussed in our society. The role of education in this process is thus highlighted for it is fundamental to social transformations and to form citizens with a more accurate critical view. Thus, a study has been carried out to analyze if the implementation of educational actions could contribute to the resignification of social control in the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte - Campus Caicó (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte – Caicó Campus). To this end, a quantitative, exploratory-descriptive research with the students of the referred school was done. The data were collected in two stages, during September-December, 2017. In the first stage, a questionnaire composed of sixteen questions was used as source of evidence. Yet in the first stage, a previous analysis was made with the SPSS software, which data was presented in charts. In the second stage, the researcher created actions aimed at strengthening the observed critical point – as a resulted from the data obtained from the questionnaires; these reports were made through photographs. In the third and last stage, the researcher reapplied ten questions from the questionnaire firstly answered and analized, with the SPSS software, the obtained results after the actions were implemented. From the results found, one may conclude that the implementation of educational actions modified the perception of the students over the social control, contributing to their understanding of this topic to public administration.