DIDACTIC SEQUENCE: MULTILITERACIES IN HIGH SCHOOL INTEGRATED TO VOCATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Vocational and Technological Education (VTE) is a modality of education provided by Law 9.394/1996 that includes the initial and continuing training courses or professional qualifications, vocational courses, and professional and technological education at the graduate and postgraduate levels. Integrated High School into vocational courses has much to contribute to the constitution of the full-time high school and curricular integration. Moreover, this educational project is understood as omnilateral education of citizens, which allows them to understand the productive system as a whole and to make choices that meet both the needs of society and their aspirations (MANACORDA, 2007). Besides, this proposal seeks to educate qualified professionals for the workplace, active citizens in the political society where they stand as well as to make the learners consumers and producers of knowledge related to work, science, technology, and culture. Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, developing the digital, critical, and intercultural literacies of the school community has become urgent due to social isolation, emergency remote teaching, and the spread of fake news on social media, which have caused panic and confusion in the whole world. Bearing the aforementioned context in mind, we have designed the present didactic sequence to help English teachers to deliver instruction during the implementation of the emergency remote teaching in vocational courses integrated into high school at the Federal Institute of Ceará - Fortaleza campus. It is worth mentioning that the didactic sequence was designed considering the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2015), and the principles of polytechnic and omnilateral education, as shown in the Master's dissertation entitled: A contribuição da pedagogia dos multiletramentos para o ensino de inglês no Ensino Médio Integrado. We hope this educational tool might help English teachers provide integrated curricular practices in Integrated High School into vocational courses during remote teaching and blended learning settings.