Abstract:

This is basically a summary of the work presented in 2019 as a Master's thesis of the Graduate Program in Professional Education and Technology, the ProfEPT . The original title refers to the research site, a campus of a federal institute located in the northern region of Brazil, just to the left bank of the longest river in the world.

The main idea was to prove that the use of notions of entrepreneurship could help improve the academic performance of students, and that this would lead to low school dropout rate in the research site, which at the time was around 42% of the total student body. This idea was grounded on entrepreneurial vision as support for formal education, vocational high level of technical, giving rise to "a renewed vision of entrepreneurship and based on a holistic approach to education: an entrepreneurial education." (MENDES, 2011, p. 6).

Based on this idea we have established an alternative to address our research problem: how to use entrepreneurship to contribute to improving the teaching and learning process in the mid-level EFA courses IFPA - Campus Obidos? And that alternative was that? Propose a model of entrepreneurship-based learning method, using as a case study two mid-level EFA courses IFPA - Campus Obidos. It was what we did.

Although we knew which caused the unrest to try to reverse this escape plan, so that we could establish strategic and present a possible solution to bypass it was necessary to know the cause of the problem; hence the research find out, among students, which were factors leading to it. The result pointed to 37.93% of dissatisfaction with the teaching methods used by teachers, which caused demotivation and disinterest, the consequence of which materialized in low academic performance. In short, notes were low and many faults.

As part of the requirements for obtaining the master's degree program requires masters present an educational product at the end of the course, without which it is not possible to obtain this title. So we had to provide, in addition to research, the product, which in the course of the academic periods became a very tangible result of what was researching; I say until inevitable. This was our way of trying to achieve acceptable levels of academic grades and attendance.

The product, specifically a method of learning, is a specific proposal for EFA mid-level considering obtaining or improvement of the entrepreneurial characteristics of individuals to lead them to a better understanding and significance of what they learn in school, thus contributing to the permanence and success of the students of this educational modal.

After effusive and profitable diving references that could support the work, the discovery has been a little more exciting: there were no direct references about the object of the search. Databases said people had written on the subject, but not as we thought; not for the purpose we had in mind. The solution found was to do what we now call "references escalation", which in practice is to take what is most interesting about that research in each reference found and form its own reference base that can serve as the basis for the new knowledge. And yes, it was a new acquaintance.

As innovation is the references found not cope with the exact meaning we attach to entrepreneurship in technical education, but still, we reported the knowledge that enabled us to establish the foundations of the method proposed, until we reach the desired shape.

Keywords:

Learning, Teaching, Entrepreneurship, Method, Entrepreneurial Education.