A formação profissional do técnico em química: caracterização das origens e necessidades atuais

Abstract

THE PROFESSIONAL FORMATION OF THE TECHNICIAN IN CHEMISTRY: CHARACTERIZATION OF ITS ORIGINS AND CURRENT NECESSITIES. This work reports the situation of technicians employed in chemical industries in Curitiba city, working in chemistry and related fields. The aim of this study is to characterize not only their work conditions, but also their social, economic, professional and educational profiles.

Students Building Didactic Experiments as a Tool for Teaching Unit Operations and Process Control for Chemistry Technicians

“…Such contents are often difficult to assimilate in the learning process for most of the secondary students of the technician chemistry course due to the fact that unit operations and their basic principles involved, as well as the control strategies and instrumentation used, are somewhat distant subjects from the daily high school academic life. 4,5 At the same time, these lessons contents are challenges to the teachers for explaining and discussing in class such diverse and complicated processes due to the level of education. 6 New teaching strategies seek to build upon student curriculum progression through skill development, the role of the teacher as a learning guide, active student participation, encouraging self-learning and using smaller groups, allowing for more direct interaction in student-teacher and student-student levels.…”