Sustainability And Transdisciplinarity In Vocacional And Technological Education (VTE): An Analysis From The Perspective Of Profept Master Students

Abstract

 In a historical moment of complexity paradigm, and as a way to expand the debate on such close subjects, this article aimed to analyze and reflect on sustainability and transdisciplinarity in Vocational and Technological Education (VTE) from the perspective of the students of the ProfEPT professional master’s degree. The data collection methodology was documentary and exploratory, from 2020 to 2022, in four classes of the discipline “Special Topics: Sustainability as a practice for transdisciplinarity in VTE”, taught by the Federal Institute of Paraná. We discussed the results using the content analysis technique, where ten categories of data were found, all correlated with each other. In general, it was registered that the content of the analyzed discipline assisted with the dissertation, pedagogical practice and adoption of personal practices, in addition to being highlighted as a positive experience of knowledge Exchange among students. Therefore, we identified levels of transdisciplinary, individual and collective processes and connections, through the presented didactic sequence, as well as the importance of continued teacher education being evidence.