QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND GOOD ETHNIC-ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEACHING AND PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES: THE CASE OF THE CEEPBIOTECNOLOGIA PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL - ITABUNA-BA (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This summary highlights the experiences with good ethnic entrepreneurial teaching and pedagogical practices, based on Afro-centered practices, without disregarding other ethnicities, and experienced at ``CEEP-BIOTECNOLOGIA``, in recent times, located in Itabuna, Bahia. Their implementation had a significant impact on educational transformation and the promotion of Afro-entrepreneurship in teaching, at that professional technical school and its consequences in the professional activities of the students who graduated. The main focus was to overcome the limitations of traditional technical education to create a more inclusive educational environment that was conducive to the contemporary demands inherent in the prospects of employability, proactivity for Afro-entrepreneurial businesses and careers of the students who graduated. In addition, there were signs of filling the gaps regarding the lack of representation of pertinent curricular content and practices and recognition of the contributions of Afro-descendants in education. This was a relevant issue that was partially addressed. The methodology adopted involved the implementation of an Action Research (TRIPP, 2005) through “Africanized” 5S practices in the school environment, together with the organization of lectures, workshops and activities aimed at promoting Afro-entrepreneurship. The activities developed contributed to a unique educational transformation, although there are doubts as to its long-lasting nature, in that vocational technical school, by promoting, albeit temporarily, a more inclusive environment and preparing students to survive socioeconomically the challenges of the real world.