Da história que forma ao aço que transforma: integração curricular no ensino de metaluriga na Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (EPT)

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze how the practice of curricular integration in the Integrated High School Technical Course in Metallurgy can contribute to the students' integral human development, based on the understanding that Professional and Technological Education is historically marked by an educational duality that fragments general and technical education. This is an applied, qualitative study—exploratory in its diagnostic phase and involving pedagogical intervention in its implementation phase—conducted at IFMG – Ouro Branco Campus. Electronic questionnaires answered by three teachers from the course's second year (two in Steelmaking and one in History) indicated that curricular integration between these subjects is still in its early stages. This gap informed the development of the Educational Product: a gamified didactic sequence titled "From the History that Shapes to the Steel that Transforms." Organized into six fifty-minute lessons and three sessions, the sequence traces steel production from the colonial period to the present day. Gamification was implemented using the Kahoot platform. Evaluation of the product was based on seventeen anonymous, handwritten accounts collected from attendees at the final session and subjected to Discursive Textual Analysis. The results suggest that incorporating the History of Steelmaking into the technical subject can expand opportunities for knowledge construction, fostering an understanding of production processes as the result of historical transformations and social relations. The study concludes that the proposal has the potential to foster curricular integration and the principles of integral human development, although the results—limited to the specific context investigated—cannot be attributed solely to the Educational Product. This research is linked to Line 1 (Educational Practices in Professional and Technological Education) and Macro-project 1 of the ProfEPT program.